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Antitypous :: Antitypous (a.) Resisting blows; hard.

Unsisting :: Unsisting (a.) Unresisting.

Alexiterical :: Alexiterical (a.) Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.

Durability :: Durability (n.) The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing..

Resistance :: Resistance (n.) A means or method of resisting; that which resists.

Live-forever :: Live-forever (n.) A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine..

Proof :: Proof (a.) Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof..

Defensive :: Defensive (a.) Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war..

Nonresisting :: Nonresisting (a.) Not making resistance.

Stipulation :: Stipulate (v. i.) To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France..

Lintel :: Lintel (n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture..

Strength :: Strength (n.) Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.

Solid :: Solid (a.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.

Durableness :: Durableness (n.) Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability..

Passiveness :: Passiveness (n.) The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Work :: Work (n.) The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg..

Buttress :: Buttress (n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry..

Rigidity :: Rigidity (n.) The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness..

Seaboat :: Seaboat () A boat or vessel adapted to the open sea; hence, a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm, or maintaining herself in a heavy sea; as, a good sea boat..

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