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<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.</def>

<cs><col>Foliated telluium</col>. <fld>(Min.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Nagyagite</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Foliation</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Fo"li*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>foliation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The manner in which the young leaves are dispo<?/ed within the bud.</def>

<blockquote> The . . . <b>foliation</b> must be in relation to the stem. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See <er>Tracery</er>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.</def>

<h1>Foliature</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Fo"li*a*ture</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>foliatura</ets> foliage.]</ety> <def>1. Foliage; leafage.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shuckford.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of being beaten into foil.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Folier</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Fo"li*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Goldsmith's foil.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Sprat.</i>

<h1>Foliferous</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Fo*lif"er*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>folium</ets> leaf+ <ets>-ferous</ets>: cf. F. <ets>foliif\'8are</ets>.]</ety> <def>Producing leaves.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>foliiferous</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Folily</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Fol"i*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Foolishly.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Folio</h1> <Xpage=578>

<hw>Fol"io</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Folios</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Ablative of L. <ets>folium</ets> leaf. See 4th <er>Foil</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A leaf of a book or manuscript.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A sheet of paper once folded.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under <er>Paper</er>.</def>