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

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

Rejolt :: Rejolt (n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.

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

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

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

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

Recoiled :: Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoi.

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil..

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.

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

Shrink :: Shrink (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal..

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..

Shocking :: Shocking (a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting..

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

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc..

Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

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

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