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A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
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A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
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A foister; a sharper.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Foil
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The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte.
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The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.
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Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play.
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A foil.
imp. & p. p.
of Foist
v. t.
To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
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The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.
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One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.
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of Foil
v. t.
To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
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of Foist
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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.
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An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
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One who foils or frustrates.
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Capable of being foiled.
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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.
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