Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 45
Foil (n.) A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not. -- Shak.
Isocrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a word. -- Mitford.
Foil (n.) The track or trail of an animal.
To run a foil, To lead astray; to puzzle; -- alluding to the habits of some animals of running back over the same track to mislead their pursuers. -- Brewer.
Foil (n.) A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
Foil (n.) (Jewelry) 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. -- Ure.
Foil (n.) Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
As she a black silk cap on him began To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Hector has a foil to set him off. -- Broome.
Foil (n.) A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
Foil (n.) (Arch.) 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.
Foil stone, An imitation of a jewel or precious stone.
Foil (n.) A piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil".
Foil (n.) Anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils" [syn: foil, enhancer].
Foil (n.) A device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; "the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils" [syn: hydrofoil, foil].
Foil (n.) Picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector [syn: foil, transparency].
Foil (n.) A light slender flexible sword tipped by a button.
Foil (v.) Enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background".
Foil (v.) Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk].
Foil (v.) Cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors."
FOIL, () File Oriented Interpretive Language. CAI language.
["FOIL - A File Oriented Interpretive Language", J.C. Hesselbart, Proc ACM 23rd National Conf (1968)].
Foilable (a.) Capable of being foiled.
Foiler (n.) One who foils or frustrates. -- Johnson.
Foiling (n.) (Arch.) A foil. -- Simmonds.
Foiling (n.) (Hunting) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
Foiling (n.) An act of hindering someone's plans or efforts [syn: frustration, thwarting, foiling].
Foin (n.) (Zool.) 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. [Obs.]
He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins. -- Fuller.
Foin (v. i.) To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge. [Obs.]
He stroke, he soused, he foynd, he hewed, he lashed. -- Spenser.
They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore. -- Dryden.
Foin (v. t.) To prick; to sting. [Obs.] -- Huloet.
Foin (n.) A pass in fencing; a lunge. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Foinery (n.) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play. [Obs.] -- Marston.
Foiningly (adv.) With a push or thrust. [Obs.]
Foison (n.) Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. [Archaic] -- Lowell.
That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison. -- Shak.
Foist (n.) A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Foisted (imp. & p. p.) of Foist.
Foisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foist.
Foist (v. t.) 採用欺騙手段出售；偷偷加進；使混入；把……強加（於），強迫接受 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.
Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption. -- R. Carew.
When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. -- South.
Foist (n.) A foister; a sharper. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Foist (n.) A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Foist (v.) To force onto another; "He foisted his work on me."
Foist (v.) Insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
Foister (n.) One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier. -- Mir. for Mag.
Foistied (a.) Fusty. [Obs.]
Foistiness (n.) Fustiness; mustiness. [Obs.]
Foisty (a.) Fusty; musty. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
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. -- 1 Kings vi. 34.
Fold (n.) A doubling, esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen. -- Bacon.
Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions. -- J. D. Dana.
Fold (n.) 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 (n.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold. -- Shak.
Fold net, A kind of net used in catching birds.
Fold (n.) An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. -- Milton.
Fold (n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
There shall be one fold and one shepherd. -- John x. 16.
The very whitest lamb in all my fold. -- Tennyson.
Fold (n.) A boundary; a limit. [Obs.] -- Creech.
Fold yard, an inclosure for sheep or cattle.
Fold (v. t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep.
Fold (v. i.) To confine sheep in a fold. [R.]
The star that bids the shepherd fold. -- Milton. Foldable
Fold (n.) An angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow" [syn: fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend].
Fold (n.) A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church [syn: congregation, fold, faithful].
Fold (n.) A geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock [syn: fold, folding].
Fold (n.) A group of sheep or goats [syn: flock, fold].
Fold (n.) A folded part (as in skin or muscle) [syn: fold, plica].
Fold (n.) A pen for sheep [syn: fold, sheepfold, sheep pen, sheepcote].
Fold (n.) The act of folding; "he gave the napkins a double fold" [syn: fold, folding].
Fold (v.) Bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar" [syn: fold, fold up, turn up] [ant: open, spread, spread out, unfold].
Fold (v.) Incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating; "Fold the egg whites into the batter."
Fold (v.) Cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop" [syn: close up, close, fold, shut down, close down] [ant: open, open up].
Fold (v.) Confine in a fold, like sheep [syn: pen up, fold].
Fold (v.) Become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy" [syn: fold, fold up].
Fold, () An enclosure for flocks to rest together (Isa. 13:20). Sheep-folds are mentioned Num. 32:16, 24, 36; 2 Sam. 7:8; Zeph. 2:6; John 10:1, etc. It was prophesied of the cities of Ammon (Ezek. 25:5), Aroer (Isa. 17:2), and Judaea, that they would be folds or couching-places for flocks. "Among the pots," of the Authorized Version (Ps. 68:13), is rightly in the Revised Version, "among the sheepfolds."
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.) 【書】葉，葉子，簇葉 [U]；【建】葉飾 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 plant} (Bot.), Any plant cultivated for the beauty of its leaves, as many kinds of {Begonia} and {Coleus}.
Foliage (v. t.) To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves. [R.] -- Drummond.
Foliage (n.) The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants [syn: {leaf}, {leafage}, {foliage}].
Foliage (n.) (Architecture) Leaf-like architectural ornament [syn: {foliation}, {foliage}].
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.) 生葉；花葉形裝飾；【建】葉狀飾；打成薄片；（書籍，手抄稿等）編張數號（區別於編頁數數號）；【地】葉理；成層 The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
Foliation (n.) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. -- De Quincey.
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.) (Arch.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery.
Foliation (n.) (Geol.) 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.
Foliation (n.) (Botany) the process of forming leaves [syn: foliation, leafing].
Foliation (n.) (Geology) The arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock.
Foliation (n.) (Architecture) Leaf-like architectural ornament [syn: foliation, foliage].
Foliation (n.) The production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves.
Foliation (n.) The work of coating glass with metal foil.
Foliature (n.) Foliage; leafage. [Obs.] -- Shuckford.
Foliature (n.) The state of being beaten into foil. -- Johnson.
Folier (n.) Goldsmith's foil. [R.] -- Sprat.
Foliferous (a.) Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]
Folily (a.) Foolishly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Folios (n. 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.) (Print.) 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.) (Law) 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.
Folio post, A flat writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches.
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 (n. pl. ) of Folium.
Folia (n. 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.