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Fly :: Fly (v. i.) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock..

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

Incuss :: Incuss (v. t.) To form, or mold, by striking or stamping, as a coin or medal..

Cancellation :: Cancellation (n.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor..

Croquet :: Croquet (v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet..

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..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.

Ferule :: Ferule (n.) A flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment..

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

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

Toll :: Toll (v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend..

Stereoscope :: Stereopticon (n.) An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views..

Appulse :: Appulse (n.) A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against..

Emphatically :: Emphatically (adv.) With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preeminently.

Feat :: Feat (n.) A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity..

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

Clack :: Clack (n.) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click..

Hiccough :: Hiccough (n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough..

Strike :: Strike (n.) The act of striking.

Percussive :: Percussive (a.) Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force..

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