Foil: alternatives and connections

The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or specia…

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To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.

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An opposite point

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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of Forbid

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To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

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To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

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An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

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An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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The art of painting; representation by painting.

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To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

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The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.

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Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.

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To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

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To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of…

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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To raise or lift up; to exalt.

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To raise or lift up; to exalt.

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One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

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One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

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Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

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Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.

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The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

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The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

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Tending to defeat; fallacious.

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Tending to defeat; fallacious.

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of Thwart

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of Thwart

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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

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To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a credito…

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A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

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One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

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The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.

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