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Lute :: Lute (n.) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

Allision :: Allision (n.) The act of dashing against, or striking upon..

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..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

Tipping :: Tipping (n.) A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing..

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

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

Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game..

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

Overreach :: Overreach (n.) The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.

Clock :: Clock (n.) The striking of a clock.

Crepane :: Crepane (n.) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer..

Ring :: Ring (v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell..

Stunning :: Stunner (n.) Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence.

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

Buffeting :: Buffeting (n.) A striking with the hand.

Tennis :: Tennis (n.) A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand..

Proverb :: Proverb (n.) A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.

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

Bandy :: Bandy (n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.

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