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Marimba :: Marimba (n.) A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck..

Percuss :: Percuss (v. i.) To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3..

Percuss :: Percuss (v. t.) To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination..

Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger..

Disintegrator :: Disintegrator (n.) A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes..

Recapper :: Recapper (n.) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

Rebuff :: Rebuff (n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance..

Repercuss :: Repercuss (v. t.) To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming..

Pulsatile :: Pulsatile (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument..

Pleximeter :: Pleximeter (n.) A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion..

Repercussed :: Repercussed (imp. & p. p.) of Repercus.

Echoscope :: Echoscope (n.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.

Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

Repercussive :: Repercussive (a.) Repellent.

Percussed :: Percussed (imp. & p. p.) of Percus.

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend..

Repercussive :: Repercussive (a.) Driven back; rebounding; reverberated.

Capper :: Capper (n.) An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.

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