foil sb.2 (1 orig. a term of wrestling=‘the fact of being almost thrown, a throw not resulting in a flat fall’)
1.
defeat, repulse, check 1H6 III. iii. 11; phr.
“give the , put to the ”=give a
check to Tp. III. i. 46, 1H6 V. iii. 23.
2.
(?) disgrace, stigma
Ant. I. iv. 24* (mod. edd.
“soils”†;
Ff “foyl(e)s”).
