foliat

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Foliated p. pr. & vb. n. Foliating ] 1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. foliation. ] 1. The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manner in which the young leaves are dispo&unr_;ed within the bud. [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Arch.) The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Geol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]