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v. t.
To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
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Having numerous spiral coils round a center or nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.
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A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.
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To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
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A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact.
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Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
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Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils.
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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.
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An alloy of German silver containing tungsten; -- used for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.
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