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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Recoil  \Re*coil"\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Recoiled};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Recoiling}.]  [OE.  recoilen,  F.  reculer,  fr  L.  pref.  re- 
  re-  +  culus  the  fundament.  The  English  word  was  perhaps 
  influenced  in  form  by  accoil.] 
  1.  To  start  roll,  bound,  spring,  or  fall  back  to  take  a 
  reverse  motion;  to  be  driven  or  forced  backward;  to 
  return. 
 
  Evil  on  itself  shall  back  recoil.  --Milton. 
 
  The  solemnity  of  her  demeanor  made  it  impossible  .  . 
  .  that  we  should  recoil  into  our  ordinary  spirits. 
  --De  Quincey. 
 
  2.  To  draw  back  as  from  anything  repugnant,  distressing, 
  alarming,  or  the  like  to  shrink.  --Shak. 
 
  3.  To  turn  or  go  back  to  withdraw  one's  self  to  retire. 
  [Obs.]  ``To  your  bowers  recoil.''  --Spenser. 




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