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Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..

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

Rejolt :: Rejolt (n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.

Electro-magnet :: Electro-magnet (n.) A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe..

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

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

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..

Bought :: Bought (n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent..

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-

Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

Cop :: Cop (n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress..

Vernation :: Vernation (n.) The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation..

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..

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