Foil ¹

Definition: To tread under foot; to trample.

Foil ²

Definition: To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

Foil ³

Definition: To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.

Foil ⁴

Definition: To defile; to soil.

Foil ⁵

Definition: Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.

Foil ⁶

Definition: A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.

Foil ⁷

Definition: The track or trail of an animal.

Foil ⁸

Definition: A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.

Foil ⁹

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.

Foil ¹⁰

Definition: Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.

Foil ¹¹

Definition: A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.

Foil ¹²

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.

foil ¹³

Definition: a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button

foil ¹⁴

Definition: a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"

foil ¹⁵

Definition: picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector

foil ¹⁶

Definition: 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"

foil ¹⁷

Definition: anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing''s good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"

foil ¹⁸

Definition: cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"

foil ¹⁹

Definition: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth''s amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

foil ²⁰

Definition: enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"