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Webster 1913 Edition

resile

re-sile′

(rē̍-zīl′)

,

Verb.

I.

[

imp. & p. p.

resiled

(-zīld′)

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

resiling

.]

[L.

resilire

to leap or spring back; pref.

re-

re- +

salire

to leap, spring. See

.]

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

J. Ellis.