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Bought :: Bought (n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent..

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

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

Shrink :: Shrink (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal..

Strombus :: Strombuliform (a.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.

Tortile :: Tortile (a.) Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

Upcoil :: Upcoil (v. t. & i.) To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil..

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

Electro-magnet :: Electro-magnet (n.) A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe..

Intervolve :: Intervolve (v. t.) To involve one within another; to twist or coil together.

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

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

Recule :: Recule (v. i.) To recoil.

Coiling :: Coiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coi.

Spirifer :: Spiricle (n.) One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers.

Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To gather together; to collect.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.

Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..

Ruhmkorff''s Coil :: Ruhmkorff's coil () See Induction coil, under Induction..

Shagbark :: Shagbark (n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod..

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