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Arresting :: Arresting (a.) Striking; attracting attention; impressive.

Collision :: Collision (n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing..

Clatter :: Clatter (v. i.) To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds..

Die :: Die (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc..

Steel :: Steel (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.

Eclat :: Eclat (n.) Brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.

Pooping :: Pooping (n.) The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.

Baseball :: Baseball (n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball..

Firework :: Firework (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocke

Inflict :: Inflict (v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal..

Fulminatory :: Fulminatory (a.) Thundering; striking terror.

Anticlimax :: Anticlimax (n.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect..

Arietation :: Arietation (n.) Act of striking or conflicting.

Racktail :: Racktail (n.) An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock..

Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.

Gnomical :: Gnomical (a.) Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic..

Smack :: Smack (v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip..

Fulgurite :: Fulgurite (n.) A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge..

Glancing :: Glancing (a.) Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot..

Detent :: Detent (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking..

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