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Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.

Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style. Figures harder than even the marble itself. Dryden.

A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.

claration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practic…

To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty. Kent.

The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To repel; to drive off or away. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously. I puff the prostitute away. Dryden.

Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.

A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze. But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled. Milton.

To suppress; to repel. [Obs.] Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose. Milton.

The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent. Dunglison.

Repellent. [Obs.] "Blood is stanched by astringent and repecussive medicines." Bacon.

ntius . . . with his ardor warmed His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight. Repelled the victors. Dryden.

To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy. Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend. Milton.

The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.

Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force. Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. Pope.

Driving back; repelling.

To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat. Who, like an arch, reverberates The voice again. Shak.