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Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.

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

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

Recoiling :: Recoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recoi.

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

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..

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged..

Recoiler :: Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress..

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

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

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

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..

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

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return..

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

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

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

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..

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