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Hairspring :: Hairspring (n.) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

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

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

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

Resilient :: Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

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

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

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil..

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.

Recoilingly :: Recoilingly (adv.) In the manner of a recoil.

Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

Irresilient :: Irresilient (a.) Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc..

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..

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

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..

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..

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