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Resilient :: Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

Hairspring :: Hairspring (n.) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.

Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged..

Recoiler :: Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils..

Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..

Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress..

Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

Irresilient :: Irresilient (a.) Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.

Ugh :: Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder..

Recoiling :: Recoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recoi.

Recoilingly :: Recoilingly (adv.) In the manner of a recoil.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return..

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