Definition of coil

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

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Coilon :: Coilon (n.) A testicle.
Rejolt :: Rejolt (n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.
Ophiomancy :: Ophiomancy (n.) Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils..
Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To gather together; to collect.
Coil :: Coil (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound..
Fake :: Fake (n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil..
Cochlea :: Cochlea (n.) An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear..
Ugh :: Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder..
Curl :: Curl (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body..
Orlop :: Orlop (n.) The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled..
Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To coil together.
Recule :: Recule (v. i.) To recoil.
Coiling :: Coiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coi.
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..
Tortile :: Tortile (a.) Twisted; wreathed; coiled.
Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..
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..
Recoilingly :: Recoilingly (adv.) In the manner of a recoil.
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