Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of coil is as below...

Coil :: Coil (v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils..

Coil :: Coil (n.) A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion..

Bight :: Bight (v.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop..

Unwreathe :: Unwreathe (v. t.) To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed..

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.

Ophiomancy :: Ophiomancy (n.) Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils..

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

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

Intervolve :: Intervolve (v. t.) To involve one within another; to twist or coil together.

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

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled..

Un- :: Un- () An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-

Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball..

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

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

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..

Ruhmkorff''s Coil :: Ruhmkorff's coil () See Induction coil, under Induction..

Inductorium :: Inductorium (n.) An induction coil.

Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out..

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular