Definition of coil

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Coil (v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils..

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Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
Coil :: Coil (v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils..
Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole..
Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.
Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
Spirulate :: Spirula (n.) A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact..
Unwreathe :: Unwreathe (v. t.) To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed..
Coil :: Coil (v. t.) To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing..
Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
Ran :: Ran (n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
Coiling :: Coiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coi.
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..
Upcoil :: Upcoil (v. t. & i.) To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil..
Rejolt :: Rejolt (n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.
Coiled :: Coiled (imp. & p. p.) of Coi.
Recoiler :: Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils..
Baculite :: Baculite (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite..
Multispiral :: Multispiral (a.) Having numerous spiral coils round a center or nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.
Snakestone :: Snakestone (n.) An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake..
Uncoil :: Uncoil (v. t.) To unwind or open, as a coil of rope..
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