Repel

re-pel', v. [-pelled (-peld'), -pelling.] To drive back, force to return, check the advance of; to encounter or a ault with effectual resistance, as an encroachment; to repulse, reject, refuse. [L. repellere, -pulsurn pellere, to drive.] — Repel'lence, -lency, -len-sT, n. Quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion. — Repel'lent, Driving back able or tending to repel.— n. That which repels or scatters; a kind of water-proof cloth. — Repel'ler, n. — Repulse', -puis', n. Condition of being, or act of, etc.; refusal; denial; failure.— v. [-pulsed (-pulsf), -pulsing.] To repel, beat or drive back, reject. — Repul's ion, n. Act of, or state of being, etc.— Repul's ive, -siv, a. Inclined, serving, or able to repel: repelling; cold; reserved; forbidding.