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Word Meanings - KICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog. He kicked the shins of his judges. Macaulay. To kick the beam, to fit up and strike the beam; -- said of the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence,

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To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog. He kicked the shins of his judges. Macaulay. To kick the beam, to fit up and strike the beam; -- said of the lighter arm of a loaded balance; hence, to be found wanting in weight. Milton. -- To kick the bucket, to lose one's life; to die.

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    To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
  • STRUGGLER
    One who struggles.
  • REBEL
    Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops. Whoso be rebel to my judgment. Chaucer. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.
  • REBELLION
    Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes
  • REVOLT
    Etym: 1. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free.
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    Making resistance; resisting. -- n.
  • RESIST
    1. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct. That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. Milton. 2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. God resisteth the proud.
  • REBELDOM
    A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct o Thackeray.
  • STRUGGLE
    to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike, Dan. stryge, G. straucheln 1. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. 2. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to
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    1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. Spenser. 2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible. Masters' commands come with a power resistless To such as owe them absolute subjection. Milton. -- Re*sist"less*ly, adv. -- Re*sist"less*ness,
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    One who rebels; a rebel.
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    Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium. -- Re*sist"ing ly, adv.
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    Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force. "Thy rebellious crew." "Proud rebellious arms." Milton. -- Re*bel"lious*ly, adv. -- Re*bel"lious*ness, n.
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    A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.
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    1. The quality of being resistible; resistibleness. 2. The quality of being resistant; resitstance. The name "body" being the complex idea of extension and resistibility together in the same subject. Locke.
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    One who resists.
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    Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn.
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    Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force. Sir M. Hale. -- Re*sist"i*ble*ness, n. -- Re*sist"i*bly, adv.
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    Pertaining to the cerebellum.
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    1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
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    The cerebellum. Derham.
  • IRRESISTIBLENESS
    Quality of being irrestible.
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  • IRRESISTANCE
    Nonresistance; passive submission.
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    Making no resistance.

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