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To limit, restrain, or confine in any way. Try to imprison the resistless wind. Dryden.

ssible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.

Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable. Bp. Pearson. The ineluctable conditions of matter. Hamerton.

Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.

Irresistible. "Inevitable charms." Dryden.

revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

or steel usually in large plates closely joined and made sufficiently thick and strong to resist heavy shot.

That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.

A cleft or division. Jag bolt, a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.

n the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace.

equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds. Joule's equivalent. See under Equivalent, n.

t of an electric circuit is measured by the product of the square of the current into the resistance of that part of the circuit. If the current

prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc.

kward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn. I should kick, being kicked. Shak.

hat kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible. -- Kill"ing*ly, adv. Those eyes are made so killing. Pope. Nothing could be more killingly spoken. Milton.

A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.

Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.

uished from longitudinal pressure or stress. -- Lateral strength (Mech.), strength which resists a tendency to fracture arising from lateral pressure. -- Lateral system (Bridge Building), the system of horizontal braces (as between two vertical trusses) by which lateral stiffness is secured.

ium leprae, curable in most cases by therapy with a combination of antibiotics, but cases resistant to therapy are increasing.

r spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.