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Hairspring :: Hairspring (n.) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

Tendril :: Tendril (a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally..

Shocking :: Shocking (a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting..

Intervolution :: Intervolution (n.) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake..

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..

Multispiral :: Multispiral (a.) Having numerous spiral coils round a center or nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.

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

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

Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

Coiling :: Coiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coi.

Coiled :: Coiled (imp. & p. p.) of Coi.

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..

Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

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.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return..

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

Recoiled :: Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoi.

Resilient :: Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

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