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

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

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

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

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

Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.

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

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..

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..

Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

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

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

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

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

Recule :: Recule (v. i.) To recoil.

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

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

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

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

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..

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