These are the meanings of the letters INFLUJO when you unscramble them.
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Foil (v. t.)
To tread under foot; to trample.
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Foil (v. t.)
To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
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Foil (v. t.)
To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
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Foil (v. t.)
To defile; to soil.
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Foil (n.)
Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
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Foil (n.)
A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
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Foil (n.)
The track or trail of an animal.
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Foil (n.)
A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
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Foil (n.)
A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.
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Foil (n.)
Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
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Foil (n.)
A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
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Foil (n.)
The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.
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Foin (n.)
The beech marten (Mustela foina). See Marten.
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Foin (n.)
A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
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Foin (v. i.)
To thrust with a sword or spear; to lunge.
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Foin (v. t.)
To prick; to st?ng.
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Foin (n.)
A pass in fencing; a lunge.
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Foul (n.)
A bird.
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Foul (superl.)
Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
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Foul (superl.)
Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
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Foul (superl.)
Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
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Foul (superl.)
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
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Foul (superl.)
Ugly; homely; poor.
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Foul (superl.)
Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
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Foul (superl.)
Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
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Foul (superl.)
Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
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Foul (v. t.)
To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
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Foul (v. t.)
To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
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Foul (v. t.)
To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
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Foul (v. t.)
To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
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Foul (v. i.)
To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
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Foul (v. i.)
To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
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Foul (n.)
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
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Foul (n.)
See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
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Join (v. t.)
To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.
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Join (v. t.)
To associate one's self to; to be or become connected with; to league one's self with; to unite with; as, to join a party; to join the church.
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Join (v. t.)
To unite in marriage.
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Join (v. t.)
To enjoin upon; to command.
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Join (v. t.)
To accept, or engage in, as a contest; as, to join encounter, battle, issue.
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Join (v. i.)
To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the hones of the skull join; two rivers join.
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Join (n.)
The line joining two points; the point common to two intersecting lines.
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Lion (n.)
A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane.
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Lion (n.)
A sign and a constellation; Leo.
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Lion (n.)
An object of interest and curiosity, especially a person who is so regarded; as, he was quite a lion in London at that time.
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Loin (n.)
That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.