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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Re-sile', v. i.

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(re-zīl'), v. i. [imp. & p. p. RESILED; p. pr. & vb. n. RESILING.] [Lat. resilire, to leap or spring back, fr. re, again, back, and salire, to leap, spring; Fr. résilir.] To start back; to recede from a purpose. [Obs.] Ellis.