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- English Word Foil Definition To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
- English Word Foil Definition To defile; to soil.
- English Word Foil Definition Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- English Word Foil Definition A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
- English Word Foil Definition The track or trail of an animal.
- English Word Foil Definition A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
- English Word Foil Definition 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.
- English Word Foil Definition Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
- English Word Foil Definition A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
- English Word Foil Definition 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.
- English Word Foilable Definition Capable of being foiled.
- English Word Foiled Definition of Foil
- English Word Foiler Definition One who foils or frustrates.
- English Word Foiling Definition of Foil
- English Word Foiling Definition A foil.
- English Word Foiling Definition The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
- English Word Foin Definition The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.
- English Word Foin Definition A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
- English Word Foin Definition To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge.
- English Word Foin Definition To prick; to st?ng.