Foils is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FOILS in dictionary:

VERB:
• FOIL, to defeat or baffle
• prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding
• frustrate the efforts or plans of
• (of a hunted animal) run over or cross (ground or a scent or track) in such a way as to confuse the hounds.
NOUN:
• the track or scent of a hunted animal.
• a setback in an enterprise; a defeat.
• metal hammered or rolled into a thin flexible sheet, used chiefly for covering or wrapping food
• a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another
• a thin leaf of metal placed under a precious stone to increase its brilliance.
• a leaf-shaped curve formed by the cusping of an arch or circle.
• a light, blunt-edged fencing sword with a button on its point.
• each of the structures fitted to a hydrofoil's hull to lift it clear of the water at speed.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to prevent the success of

Words related to FOILS

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How to use FOILS in a sentence

• The earliest lesson I had learned at the foils was that victory comes only to the man who keeps his coolness.
• I took my lesson with the foils morning and evening, and soon began to make some progress in the art.
• I flushed crimson with chagrin, for that he guessed the reason of my diligence with the foils, I could not doubt.
• Barely crossing foils, Taquisara executed the feint in question at once, and lunged his fullest length.
• He had brought a set of boxing gloves, foils, and a number of sporting pictures.
• The hours of practice with the foils are so long there that they look more like days and nights, and the weapons are dangerous sometimes, as they are not blunted.
• Reserve bill foes left stranded as Bryan foils them.
• Claudius induced Laertes to challenge Hamlet to play with foils, but persuaded him to poison his weapon.
• In the combat the foils got changed, and Hamlet wounded Laertes with the poisoned weapon.
• The captain and I chanced to be in the thick of an encounter with the foils, and neither of us heard the rap on the door which announced the visitors.
• Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils or at football.
• All arms, down to fencing foils, had been handed over to the town administration and deposited by the said authorities in the Church of St.
• That these motives are not there is, I think, not only that Lady Gregory, self-effacingly, put into her plays what was wanted to make them foils to the plays of Mr.
• This was no play duel or mock fencing match with buttoned foils.
• All arms down to fencing foils had been handed over to the town administration and deposited by the said authorities in the Church of St.
• He had a special place adapted for his pistols, others for his foils, and again another for his whips.
• There were guns and rifles in plenty in a rack by the chimney-piece, a row of bookcases along the north wall, golf clubs, cricket bats, and foils everywhere.
• But he had not the faintest idea how to use a stick, whereas my practice with the foils at the gymnasium had made me quite skilful.
• They will do very well as foils to myself, so I have invited them to accompany me to London where I hope to be in the course of a fortnight.
• When you present the Foils, give the Choice without pressing.
• A pair of foils and masks, neatly arranged over each corner of the mantelpiece, completed the decorations of the room.
• We will, however, hope, that the very wicked and cowardly, among seamen, exist only as foils to render the qualities of the very bold and manly more conspicuous.
• Upon the chimney-piece were displayed a pair of foils, a lute, a skull, an antique German drinking-mug, and several very modern empty bottles.
• Now the thunder and the pestilence which were once its essence come to be regarded as its disguises and its foils.
• As foils to these larger characters stand out the mean, vengeful Einar, the brutal Alf, the insolent but brave Thorolf.
• One fine morning in the Spring of 1773, Philip and I were breaking the Sabbath by practising with the foils in our back garden.
• Long time ago the gentlemen of the family had worn lace ruffles and carried tinless foils and owned plantations and had slaves to burn.

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