Definition of coil

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Coil (v. i.) To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.

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Ugh :: Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder..
Differential :: Differential (n.) One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other..
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.
Recoilingly :: Recoilingly (adv.) In the manner of a recoil.
Recoil :: Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.
Upcoil :: Upcoil (v. t. & i.) To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil..
Resilient :: Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.
Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To coil together.
Coilon :: Coilon (n.) A testicle.
Spirulate :: Spirula (n.) A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact..
Aphlogistic :: Aphlogistic (a.) Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame..
Laocoon :: Laocoon (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil..
Platinoid :: Platinoid (n.) An alloy of German silver containing tungsten; -- used for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current..
Ophiomancy :: Ophiomancy (n.) Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils..
Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..
Unwreathe :: Unwreathe (v. t.) To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed..
Caduceus :: Caduceus (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top..
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