Definition of coil

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Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.

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Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..
Bought :: Bought (n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent..
Platinoid :: Platinoid (n.) An alloy of German silver containing tungsten; -- used for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.
Voluminous :: Voluminous (a.) Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions..
Coil :: Coil (n.) A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion..
Uncoil :: Uncoil (v. t.) To unwind or open, as a coil of rope..
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..
Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.
Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..
Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole..
Cop :: Cop (n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc..
Coil :: Coil (n.) A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus..
Gyrate :: Gyrate (a.) Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.
Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
Curl :: Curl (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body..
Ugh :: Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder..
Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Quoil :: Quoil (n.) See Coil.
Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To gather together; to collect.
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