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

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

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.

Ugh :: Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder..

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

Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.

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

Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

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

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..

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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