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Definition of resist
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Resist
(v. t.) To be
distasteful
to.
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Seaboat
::
Seaboat
() A boat or
vessel
adapted
to the open sea;
hence,
a
vessel
considered
with
reference
to her power of
resisting
a
storm,
or
maintaining
herself
in a heavy sea; as, a good sea
boat..
Casehardened
::
Casehardened
(a.)
Hardened
against,
or
insusceptible
to, good
influences;
rendered
callous
by
persistence
in
wrongdoing
or
resistance
of good
influences;
-- said of
persons..
Defend
::
Defend
(v. t.) To deny the right of the
plaintiff
in
regard
to (the suit, or the wrong
charged);
to
oppose
or
resist,
as a claim at law; to
contest,
as a
suit..
Governor
::
Governor
(n.) A
contrivance
applied
to steam
engines,
water
wheels,
and other
machinery,
to
maintain
nearly
uniform
speed when the
resistances
and
motive
force are
variable..
Reluct
::
Reluct
(v. i.) To
strive
or
struggle
against
anything;
to make
resistance;
to draw back; to feel or show
repugnance
or
reluctance.
Sea Wall
::
Sea wall () A wall, or
embankment,
to
resist
encroachments
of the sea..
Whinstone
::
Whinstone
(n.) A
provincial
name given in
England
to
basaltic
rocks,
and
applied
by
miners
to other kind of
dark-colored
unstratified
rocks which
resist
the point of the pick. -- for
example,
to
masses
of
chert.
Whin-dikes,
and
whin-sills,
are names
sometimes
given to veins or beds of
basalt..
Ohm
::
Ohm (n.) The
standard
unit in the
measure
of
electrical
resistance,
being the
resistance
of a
circuit
in which a
potential
difference
of one volt
produces
a
current
of one
ampere.
As
defined
by the
International
Electrical
Congress
in 1893, and by
United
States
Statute,
it is a
resistance
substantially
equal to 109 units of
resistance
of the
C.G.S.
system
of
electro-magnetic
units,
and is
represented
by the
resistance
offered
to an
unvarying
electric
current
by a
column
of
mercury
at the
tempera
Chthonophagy
::
Chthonophagy
(n.) A
disease
characterized
by an
irresistible
desire
to eat
earth,
observed
in some parts of the
southern
United
States,
the West
Indies,
etc..
Embalm
::
Embalm
(v. t.) To
anoint
all over with balm;
especially,
to
preserve
from decay by means of balm or other
aromatic
oils, or
spices;
to fill or
impregnate
(a dead
body),
with
aromatics
and drugs that it may
resist
putrefaction..
Bridge
::
Bridge
(n.) A
device
to
measure
the
resistance
of a wire or other
conductor
forming
part of an
electric
circuit.
Resisting
::
Resisting
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of
Resis.
Alexiterical
::
Alexiterical
(a.)
Resisting
poison;
obviating
the
effects
of
venom;
alexipharmic.
Seaworthiness
::
Seaworthiness
(n.) The state or
quality
of being
seaworthy,
or able to
resist
the
ordinary
violence
of wind and
weather..
Weight
::
Weight
(v. t.) The
resistance
against
which a
machine
acts, as
opposed
to the power which moves it..
Deforcement
::
Deforcement
(n.)
Resistance
to an
officer
in the
execution
of law.
Soft
::
Soft
(superl.)
Easily
yielding
to
pressure;
easily
impressed,
molded,
or cut; not firm in
resisting;
impressible;
yielding;
also,
malleable;
--
opposed
to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft
peach;
soft
earth;
soft wood or
metal..
Rebuff
::
Rebuff
(v. t.) To beat back; to offer
sudden
resistance
to; to
check;
to repel or
repulse
violently,
harshly,
or
uncourteously..
Kick
::
Kick (v. i.) To
thrust
out the foot or feet with
violence;
to
strike
out with the foot or feet, as in
defense
or in bad
temper;
esp., to
strike
backward,
as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so.
Hence,
figuratively:
To show ugly
resistance,
opposition,
or
hostility;
to
spurn..
Weather
::
Weather
(v. t.)
Hence,
to
sustain
the
trying
effect
of; to bear up
against
and
overcome;
to
sustain;
to
endure;
to
resist;
as, to
weather
the
storm..
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