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Shocking

Causing to shake or tremble as by a blow especially causing to recoil with horror or disgust extremely offensive or disgusting

Assault

so ever they be, will amount to an assault. Assault does not always necessarily imply a hitting or blow; because, in trespass for assault and battery, a person may be found guilty of the assault, but not

Sneak current

A current which though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments will in time burn them out

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Sockdolager

That which finishes or ends a matter a settler a poser as a heavy blow a conclusive answer and the like

Monsoon

A wind blowing part of the year from one direction alternating with a wind from the opposite direction a term applied

Cornage

[fr. Cornu, Lat., a horn], a kind of tenure in grand serjeanty, the service of which was to blow a horn when any invasion of the Scots was perceived; and by this tenure many persons held their

Deodand

the instrument of death and the value were presented and found by the grand jury (as that the blow was given by a certain bludgeon, value 9d.), that the Crown or the grantee might claim the deodand;

Devastavit

be barred after six years by the Statute of Limitations, Lacons v. Wormall, (1907) 2 KB 350; Re Blow, (1914) 1 Ch 233, and s. 8(3) of the Trustee Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 59).

Voluntarily causing grievous hurt

kind. Illustration, A, intending or knowing himself to be likely permanently to disfigure Z's face, gives Z a blow which does not permanently disfigure Z's face, but which causes Z to suffer severe bodily pain for the

Montant

An upward thrust or blow

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