Definition of coil

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

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Voluminous :: Voluminous (a.) Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions..
Shrink :: Shrink (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal..
Spirifer :: Spiricle (n.) One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers.
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..
Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To coil together.
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball..
Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..
Strombus :: Strombuliform (a.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.
Resilient :: Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.
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..
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..
Uncoil :: Uncoil (v. t.) To unwind or open, as a coil of rope..
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.
Gyrate :: Gyrate (a.) Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.
Coil :: Coil (n.) A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus..
Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.
Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..
Coil :: Coil (v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils..
Curl :: Curl (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body..
Cochlea :: Cochlea (n.) An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear..
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