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2. Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.
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Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. Hayward.
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foghorn n. A horn that emits a loud low-pitched sound, used on ships navigating in a fog, to warn other ships of their presence.
Syn. -- fog signal.
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Fogie (?), n. See .
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Fogless (?), a. Without fog; clear. Kane.
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fog signal n. a loud low warning sound that can be heard by fog-bound ships; a foghorn.
Syn. -- foghorn.
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Fogy (?), n.; pl. Fogies (�). 1. A dull old fellow; a person behind the times, over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old; an old fogy. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.]
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Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. Thackeray.
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☞ The word is said to be connected with the German vogt, a guard or protector. By others it is regarded as a diminutive of folk (cf. D. volkje). It is defined by Jamieson, in his Scottish Dictionary, as “an invalid or garrison soldier,” and is applied to the old soldiers of the Royal Hospital at Dublin, which is called the Fogies' Hospital. In the fixed habits of such persons we see the origin of the present use of the term. Sir F. Head.
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2. (Mil.) In the United States service, extra pay granted to officers for length of service. [Colloq.]
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Fogyism (?), n. The principles and conduct of a fogy. [Colloq.]
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Foh (?), interj. [Cf. .] An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fie. Shak.
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Fohist (?), n. A Buddhist priest. See .
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Foible (?), a. [OF. foible. See .] Weak; feeble. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.
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Foible (?), n. 1. A moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.
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A disposition radically noble and generous, clouded and overshadowed by superficial foibles. De Quincey.
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2. The half of a sword blade or foil blade nearest the point; -- opposed to forte. [Written also faible.]

Syn. -- Fault; imperfection; failing; weakness; infirmity; frailty; defect. See .
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Foil (foil), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foiled (foild); p. pr. & vb. n. Foiling.] [F. fouler to tread or trample under one's feet, to press, oppress. See , v. t.] 1. To tread under foot; to trample.
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King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot. Knoless.
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Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle,
In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle. Spenser.
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2. To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
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And by � mortal man at length am foiled. Dryden.
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Her long locks that foil the painter's power. Byron.
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3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase. Addison.
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Foil, v. t. [See 6th .] To defile; to soil. [Obs.]
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Foil, n. 1. Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage. Milton.
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Nor e'er was fate so near a foil. Dryden.
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2. A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
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Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not. Shak.
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Isocrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a word. Mitford.
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3. The track or trail of an animal.
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Coloq. 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.
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Foil, n. [OE. foil leaf, OF. foil, fuil, fueil, foille, fueille, F. feuille, fr. L. folium, pl. folia; akin to Gr. � , and perh. to E. blade. Cf. , .] 1. A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
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2. (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.
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3. Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
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As she a black silk cap on him began
To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve. Sir P. Sidney.
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Hector has a foil to set him off. Broome.
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4. A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
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5. (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.
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Coloq. Foil stone , an imitation of a jewel or precious stone.
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Foilable (?), a. Capable of being foiled.
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Foiler (?), n. One who foils or frustrates. Johnson.
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Foiling, n. (Arch.) A foil. Simmonds.
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Foiling, n. [Cf. F. foulées. See 1st .] (Hunting) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
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Foin (foin), n. [F. fouine a marten.] 1. (Zoöl.) The beech marten (Mustela foina). See .
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2. A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.[Obs.]
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He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins. Fuller.
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Foin, v. i. [OE. foinen, foignen; of uncertain origin; cf. dial. F. fouiner to push for eels with a spear, fr. F. fouine an eelspear, perh. fr. L. fodere to dig, thrust.] To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge. [Obs.]
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He stroke, he soused, he foynd, he hewed, he lashed. Spenser.
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They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore
Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore. Dryden.
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Foin, v. t. To prick; to st?ng. [Obs.] Huloet.
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Foin, n. A pass in fencing; a lunge. [Obs.] Shak.
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Foinery (?), n. Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play. [Obs.] Marston.
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Foiningly (?), adv. With a push or thrust. [Obs.]
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Foison (?), n. [F. foison, fr. L. fusio a pouring, effusion. See .] Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. [Archaic] Lowell.
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That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
To teeming foison. Shak.
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Foist (foist), n. [OF. fuste stick, boat, fr. L. fustis cudgel. Cf. 1st .] A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
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Foist, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Foisting.] [Cf. OD. vysten to fizzle, D. veesten, E. fizz, fitchet, bullfist.] 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.
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Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption. R. Carew.
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When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. South.
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Foist, n. 1. A foister; a sharper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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2. A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Foister (?), n. One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier. Mir. for Mag.
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Foistied (?), a. [See 2d .] Fusty. [Obs.]
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Foistiness (?), n. Fustiness; mustiness. [Obs.]
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Foisty (?), a. Fusty; musty. [Obs.] Johnson.
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Fold (fōld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Folded; p. pr. & vb. n. Folding.] [OE. folden, falden, AS. fealdan; akin to OHG. faltan, faldan, G. falten, Icel. falda, Dan. folde, Sw. fålla, Goth. falþan, cf. Gr. di-plasios twofold, Skr. puṭa a fold. Cf. .] 1. 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.
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As a vesture shalt thou fold them up. Heb. i. 12.
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2. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
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3. To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
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A face folded in sorrow. J. Webster.
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We will descend and fold him in our arms. Shak.
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4. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
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Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses. Shak.
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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.
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Fold, n. [From , v. In sense 2 AS. -feald, akin to fealdan to fold.] 1. A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
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Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen. Bacon.
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Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions. J. D. Dana.
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2. 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.
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3. That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
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Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold. Shak.
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Coloq. Fold net , a kind of net used in catching birds.
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Fold, n. [OE. fald, fold, AS. fald, falod.] 1. An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
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Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.
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2. A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
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There shall be one fold and one shepherd. John x. 16.
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The very whitest lamb in all my fold. Tennyson.
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3. A boundary; a limit. [Obs.] Creech.
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Coloq. Fold yard , an inclosure for sheep or cattle.
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Fold, v. t. To confine in a fold, as sheep.
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Fold, v. i. To confine sheep in a fold. [R.]
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The star that bids the shepherd fold. Milton.
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foldable foldaway adj. Capable of being folded into a more compact form.
Syn. -- folding(prenominal).
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Foldage, (�) n. [See inclosure, .] (O.Eng.Law.) See .
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folded adj. made compact by bending or doubling over. [Narrower terms: accordion, plicate ; bifold ; closed ; doubled ; pleated ; rolled, rolled-up(prenominal) ; sunburst, sunray .] Also See: , . Antonym: unfolded
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Folder (?), n. One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
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Folderol (?), n. Nonsense; foolish talk. [Also spelled falderal and falderol.] [Colloq.]
Syn. -- humbug; balderdash; poppycock.
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Folding (?), n. 1. The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication.
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The lower foldings of the vest. Addison.
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2. (Agric.) The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc.
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Coloq. Folding boat , a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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Coloq. Folding chair , a chair which may be shut up compactly for carriage or stowage; a camp chair. -- Coloq. Folding door , one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.
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Foldless, a. Having no fold. Milman.
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Foliaceous (?), a. [L. foliaceus, fr. folium leaf.] 1. (Bot.) Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
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2. (Min.) Consisting of leaves or thin laminæ; having the form of a leaf or plate; as, foliaceous spar.
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3. (Zoöl.) Leaflike in form or mode of growth; as, a foliaceous coral.
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Foliage (?), n. [OF. foillage, fueillage, F. feuillage, fr. OF. foille, fueille, fueil, F. feulle, leaf, L. folium. See 3d , and cf. , .]
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1. Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
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2. 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.
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Coloq. Foliage plant (Bot.), any plant cultivated for the beauty of its leaves, as many kinds of Begonia and Coleus.
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Foliage (?), v. t. To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves. [R.] Drummond.
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Foliaged (?), a. Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.
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Foliar (?), a. (Bot.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.
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Coloq. Foliar gap (Bot.), an opening in the fibrovascular system of a stem at the point of origin of a leaf. -- Coloq. Foliar trace (Bot.), a particular fibrovascular bundle passing down into the stem from a leaf.
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Foliate (�), a. [L. foliatus leaved, leafy, fr. folium leaf. See .] (Bot.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
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Coloq. Foliate curve . (Geom.) Same as .
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Foliate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foliated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foliating (?).] 1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. Bacon.
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2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
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Foliated (?), a. 1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
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2. (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
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3. (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
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4. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
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5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
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Coloq. Foliated telluium . (Min.) See .
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Foliation (?), n. [Cf. F. foliation.] 1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
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2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispo�ed within the bud.
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The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey.
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3. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
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4. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
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5. (Arch.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See .
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6. (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.
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Foliature (?), n. [L. foliatura foliage.] 1. Foliage; leafage. [Obs.] Shuckford.
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2. The state of being beaten into foil. Johnson.
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Folier (?), n. Goldsmith's foil. [R.] Sprat.
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Foliferous (?), a. [L. folium leaf+ -ferous: cf. F. foliifère.] Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]
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Folily (?), a. Foolishly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Folio (?), n.; pl. Folios (#). [Ablative of L. folium leaf. See 4th .] 1. A leaf of a book or manuscript.
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2. A sheet of paper once folded.
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3. 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 .
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4. (Print.) The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.
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5. A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
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6. (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.
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Coloq. Folio post , a flat writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches.
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Folio, v. t. To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.
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Folio, a. Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See , n., 3.
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Foliolate (?), a. Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi-foliolate. Gray.
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Foliole (?), n. [Dim. of L. folium leaf: cf. F. foliole.] (Bot.) One of the distinct parts of a compound leaf; a leaflet.
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Foliomort (?), a. See .
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Foliose (?), a. [L. foliosus, fr. folium leaf.] (Bot.) Having many leaves; leafy.
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Foliosity (?), n. The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness. [R.] De Quincey.
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Folious (�), a. [See .] 1. Like a leaf; thin; unsubstantial. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
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2. (Bot.) Foliose. [R.]
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Folium (?), n.; pl. E. Foliums (#), L. Folia (#). [L., a leaf.] 1. A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
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2. (Geom.) 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.
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