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- Foil - v. t. - To tread under foot; to trample.
- Foil - v. t. - To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
- Foil - v. t. - To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
- Foil - v. t. - To defile; to soil.
- Foil - n. - Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- Foil - n. - A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
- Foil - n. - The track or trail of an animal.
- Foil - n. - A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
- Foil - n. - A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.
- Foil - n. - Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
- Foil - n. - A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
- Foil - n. - The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.
- Foilable - a. - Capable of being foiled.
- Foiled - imp. & p. p. - of Foil
- Foiler - n. - One who foils or frustrates.
- Foiling - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Foil
- Foiling - n. - A foil.
- Foiling - n. - The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
- Foible - n. - The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
- Tain - n. - Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
- Foliation - n. - The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
- Tin - n. - An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
- Platinum - n. - A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3. Symbol Pt. Formerly called platina.
- Quicksilvering - n. - The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
- Foil - v. t. - To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
- Euchre - v. t. - To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.