Repel

re-pel', v. t. [-pelled (-peld'), -pelling.] drive back, force to return, check the advance to encounter or a ault with effectual resistance, an encroachment; to repulse, reject, refuse. — pel'lence, -lency, -len-st, n. Quality or capacity repelling; repulsion.— Repel'lent, a. Driving back able or tending to repel.— n. That which repels scatters; a kind of water-proof cloth. — Repulse', -puis', n. Condition of being, or act of, etc, fusal; denial; failure. —v. t. [-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 pel; repelling; cold; reserved; forbidding.