New Crossword Solver
New Crossword Solver
Start typing and press "Enter" or "ESC" to close
Solver
Assistant
Anagram
Word Meaning
Find the meaning or definition of a word or phrase in English
Search
x
Meaning of foil
- To tread under foot; to trample.
- To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
- To defile; to soil.
- Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
- The track or trail of an animal.
- A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
- 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.
- Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
- A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
- 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.
Crossword clue for foil
- Blunt-edged fencing sword
- Cleverly stop using silver wrap
- counter balance
- Defeat
- Fencing Sword
- Fencing weapon
- Fine metal sheet
- Hair-streaking aid
- Metallic food wrapping
- Sword made of thin metal
- Thin sheet
- Thin sheet of metal
- Thwart
Latest view
acacine
precessor
feroher
looking
haul
coucal
phantasmagory
instillation
petiolar
diffusion
derails
becurl
ravaging
diablerie
cicero
ostracism
grazer
tunesin
nonentity
hotcrossbuns
Popular word
waft
shipless
cicero
diablerie
thwite
hunk
stonish
lite
preceptive
scarab
bids
slaving
prononce
casts
cannicula
podiatrists
runningriot
disinheriting
dubiosities
henparties
Random Words
Frolicsome
Tailboard
Practicable
Longitude
Simple
Calorifiant
Thioxene
Rub
Milestone
Oophore
Neb-neb
Desultorious
Steep-up
Lucid
Pommage
Box
Vehmic
Reserve
Heald
Refrication