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Alt. of Water feather-foil
A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.
The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.
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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.
a.
Capable of being foiled.
v. t.
To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
v. t.
To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
n.
An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
n.
Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
n.
The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.
n.
One who foils or frustrates.
n.
A foil.
v. t.
A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
n.
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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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.
n.
An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.
n.
A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
n.
The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
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