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/fˈɔɪlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Foil v. t. (past & past part. foiled; pres. part. foiling)

To tread under foot; to trample. " King Richard... caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot." " Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle."

To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat. "Her long locks that foil the painter's power."

To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.

Foil v. t. To defile; to soil. (Obs.)

noun

Foiling n. (Arch.) A foil.

Foiling n. (Hunting) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foiling" Quotes from Famous Books

... whose mother had asked her not to dance quite so often with Gerald, and to favour him a trifle less frequently in cotillon. Which prevoyance had been coped with successfully by Nina, who, noticing it, at first took merely a perverse pleasure in foiling Mrs. Orchil; but afterward, as the affair became noticeable, animated by the instinct of the truly clever opportunist, she gave Gerald every fighting chance. Whatever came of it—and, no doubt, the Orchils had more ambitious views for Gladys—it was ...

— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers

... the grey car ate up the distance between the links and George's cottage. Reggie Byng passed these minutes, in the intervals of eluding carts and foiling the apparently suicidal intentions of some stray fowls, in jerky conversation on the subject of his iron-shots, with which he expressed a ...

— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... gentle taps, in particular, were a little humiliating. But with his late opponent all had been serious. It had been a real test, and he had come through it very fairly. On the whole, he had taken more than he had given—his eye would look curious tomorrow—but already he had thought out a way of foiling the burly youth's rushes. Next time he would really show ...

— The White Feather • P. G. Wodehouse

... receded down the river bank. "Take that—and that—and that," I heard him shout, with a rat-tat-too of sharp thuds from the staff accompanying each word. Then I knew the quarrel on the beach was at its height; and Louis Laplante was still foiling the Sioux's approach to Miriam's wigwam ...

— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut

... noble Mentu is in trouble—the purity of an innocent one at stake, and the foiling of a villain to ...

— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller