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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.
Alt. of Water feather-foil
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n.
An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.
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.
v. t.
To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
imp. & p. p.
of Foil
a.
Capable of being foiled.
n.
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.
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.
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.
n.
One who foils or frustrates.
n.
An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
v. t.
A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
n.
Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Foil
n.
A foil.
v. t.
To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
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.
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