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Caduceus :: Caduceus (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top..

Coilon :: Coilon (n.) A testicle.

Rejolt :: Rejolt (n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.

Coil :: Coil (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound..

Quoil :: Quoil (n.) See Coil.

Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball..

Snakestone :: Snakestone (n.) An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake..

Ophiomancy :: Ophiomancy (n.) Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils..

Shocking :: Shocking (a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..

Differential :: Differential (n.) One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other..

Unlink :: Unlink (v. t.) To separate or undo, as links; to uncoil; to unfasten..

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

Fake :: Fake (n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.

Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.

Orlop :: Orlop (n.) The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled..

Intervolution :: Intervolution (n.) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake..

Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Recoiled :: Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoi.

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