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.
Foiler (n.) One who foils or frustrates.
Foiling (n.) A foil.
Foiling (n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
Foin (n.) The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.
Foin (n.) A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
Foin (v. i.) To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge.
Foin (v. t.) To prick; to st?ng.
Foin (n.) A pass in fencing; a lunge.
Foinery (n.) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play.
Foiningly (adv.) With a push or thrust.
Foison (n.) Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.
Foist (n.) A light and fast-sailing ship.
Foisted (imp. & p. p.) of Foist
Foisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foist
Foist (v. t.) To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.
Foist (n.) A foister; a sharper.
Foist (n.) A trick or fraud; a swindle.
Foister (n.) One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.
Foistied (a.) Fusty.
Foistiness (n.) Fustiness; mustiness.
Foisty (a.) Fusty; musty.
Folded (imp. & p. p.) of Fold
Folding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fold
Fold (v. t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
Fold (v. t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
Fold (v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
Fold (v. t.) To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
Fold (v. i.) To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
Fold (v.) A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
Fold (v.) Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
Fold (v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
Fold (n.) An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
Fold (n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
Fold (n.) A boundary; a limit.
Fold (v. t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep.
Fold (v. i.) To confine sheep in a fold.
Foldage (n.) See Faldage.
Folder (n.) One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
Folderol (n.) Nonsense.
Folding (n.) The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
Folding (n.) The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
Foldless (a.) Having no fold.
Foliaceous (a.) Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
Foliaceous (a.) Consisting of leaves or thin laminae; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.
Foliaceous (a.) Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.
Foliage (n.) Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
Foliage (n.) A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.
Foliage (v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.
Foliaged (a.) Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.
Foliar (a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.
Foliate (a.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
Foliated (imp. & p. p.) of Foliate
Foliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foliate
Foliate (v. t.) To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
Foliate (v. t.) To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
Foliated (a.) Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
Foliated (a.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
Foliated (a.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
Foliated (a.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
Foliated (a.) Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
Foliation (n.) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
Foliation (n.) The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud.
Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
Foliation (n.) The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
Foliation (n.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
Foliation (n.) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.
Foliature (n.) Foliage; leafage.
Foliature (n.) The state of being beaten into foil.
Folier (n.) Goldsmith's foil.
Foliferous (a.) Producing leaves.
Folily (a.) Foolishly.
Folios (pl. ) of Folio
Folio (n.) A leaf of a book or manuscript.
Folio (n.) A sheet of paper once folded.
Folio (n.) A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.
Folio (n.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.
Folio (n.) A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
Folio (n.) A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.
Fol'io (v. t.) To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.
Fol'io (a.) Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.
Fo'liolate (a.) Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi-foliolate.
Foliole (n.) One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.
Foliomort (a.) See Feuillemort.
Foliose (a.) Having many leaves; leafy.
Foliosity (n.) The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness.
Folious (a.) Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial.
Folious (a.) Foliose.
Foliums (pl. ) of Folium
Folia (pl. ) of Folium
Folium (n.) A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
Folium (n.) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.
Folk (n. collect. & pl.) Alt. of Folks