[foild] 
| ornamented with foils, as a gable, spandrel, or balustrade. |
[foil] | 1. | to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk: Loyal troops foiled his attempt to overthrow the government. |
| 2. | to keep (a person) from succeeding in an enterprise, plan, etc. |
| 3. | Archaic. a defeat; check; repulse. |
[foil] | 1. | metal in the form of very thin sheets: aluminum foil. |
| 2. | the metallic backing applied to glass to form a mirror. |
| 3. | a thin layer of metal placed under a gem in a closed setting to improve its color or brilliancy. |
| 4. | a person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast: The straight man was an able foil to the comic. |
| 5. | Architecture. an arc or a rounded space between cusps, as in the tracery of a window or other ornamentation. |
| 6. | an airfoil or hydrofoil. |
| 7. | to cover or back with foil. |
| 8. | to set off by contrast. |
| foil 1 (foil) tr.v. foiled, foil·ing, foils
[Middle English foilen, to trample, defile, variant of filen, to defile; see file3.] |
| foil 2 (foil) n.
[Middle English, from Old French foille, from Latin folia, pl. of folium, leaf; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.] |
