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Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..

Steel :: Steel (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.

Arietation :: Arietation (n.) Act of striking or conflicting.

Beating :: Beating (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

Inflict :: Inflict (v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal..

Clack :: Clack (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object..

Epiphonema :: Epiphonema (n.) An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse..

Clink :: Clink (v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together..

Efface :: Efface (v. t.) To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin..

Allision :: Allision (n.) The act of dashing against, or striking upon..

Knock :: Knock (v. t.) To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table..

Medalurgy :: Medalurgy (n.) The art of making and striking medals and coins.

Conflict :: Conflict (v.) A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves..

Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game..

Clatter :: Clatter (v. i.) To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds..

Buffeting :: Buffeting (n.) A striking with the hand.

Fist :: Fist (n.) The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow..

Stunsail :: Stunning (a.) Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry..

Clap :: Clap (v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance..

Touch :: Touch (v.) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch..

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