Fog-signal, fog'-sig -nal, s

a detonating powder placed on a railway, which, on exploding, gives notice of danger ahead to the engine driver; a shrill railway whistle; any audible signal of danger in a fog. 292 FOLIOT weakne (Old Fr., feeble). to dull: s.defeat; the failure of succe when on the a point of being secured; a blunt sword, or one that has button at the end covered with leather, used in fencing; the track or trail of game when pursued. small rounded leaf-like form in window tracery [Arch.]; among jewellers, a thin leaf of metal placed under precious stones to increase their brilliancy; anything of another colour, or of different quality, which serves to set off another thing to advantage; athin coat of tin with quicksilver, laid on the back of mirror to cause reflection (L. folium, a leaf). hunters, the mark of a pa ing deer on the gra . to palm off in an underhand way something bad. sheep; the Church, as the fold of Christ's flock; the doubling of any flexible substance, as cloth; one part turned or laid on another; in composition, times repeated, as four-fold: v.a. to double; to lay one or one part over another; to pen sheep: v.n. to close over another of the same kind (A.S. fealdan, to fold). folding of leaves close over one another. one part of a substance over another, as the folding of printed sheets; the penning of sheep or cattle. opposite side-posts, and opening in the middle. which fold together. folding newspapers or printed books. birds. screen, which folds in several leaves. with flowers; consisting of leaves or thin lam inæ. of leaves,flowers, and branches, particularly in representation representation:: v.a. to work or form into the representation of leaves. See Folio. to spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver, .: a. furnished with leaves [Bot.]: s. a curve of the third order[Geom.] plate or foil; consisting of plates or thin layers [Min.]; adorned with foils [Arch.] Foliated coal, a species of lamellar black coal distinguished for its jetty lustre and easy frangibility. the act of beating a metal into a thin leaf or foil; the operation of spreading foil over the back of a mirror; the quality of cleaving into lam inæ of different mineral properties [GeoL] foil. andfero, to produce). the largest size, formed by doubling sheet of paper once; apage of manuscript or printed matter [Printing]; both the right and left-hand pages of an account-book, expre ed by the same figure [Comm.]; seventy-two, eighty, or ninety words of manuscript [Law]: a.having the paper folded only once: v.a. to page (L. folium, a leaf). See Feuillemort.