The general kinds of VIOLENT MOTION, may be distributed according to the effects upon the thing moved,* into such as denote

• Motion together; when the Mover sustains the thing moved: to which may be annexed by way of affinity that other Action, by which one thing sustains, or hinders the falling of another.
  • CARRYING, bring, convey, bear, serve, import, waft, weare about one, portable, portage, porter, baggage, vehicle, fare, beer, packhorse.
  • BEARING, supporting, sustain, hold up, prop, shore up, stay up, up∣hold, carry, stand under, shoulder up, bolster up.
• Amotion, when the Mover and Moved do at the beginning cease to be contiguous: or Admotion, when the thing moved doth end in a contiguity of something else.
  • CASTING, throwing, fling, hurl, project, inject, eject, ding, pelt, toss, coit, sling.
  • CATCHING, apprehend, lay hold, snatch, lay hands on, grapple, graspe, scamble.

Often returns into the same place; according to ‖ greater or less degrees.

• SWINGING, Vibration, waving, brandish, agitate, exagitate, to and fro, flourish, rock, sway, dangling, pendulous, wield.
• SHAKING, Quassation, Concussion, jogging, agitate, dandle, wag, swag, sway, jolt, totter, flutter, shatter, waving.

Some impression from the Mover; according to the more

• General name: or that which is from an obtuse hard body.
  • STRIKING, Percussion, smite, bang, beat, bast, buffet, cuff, dash, hit, swinge, thump, thwack, Blow, Stripe, slap, flap, rap, tap, kick, wince, spurn, bob, box, fillip, whirret, yerke, pummel, punch, rebuff, repercus∣sion, collision, gnash, skittish, interfere, let fly at,
  • KNOCKING, beating, Blow, butt, Mallet, battering, jobbing, Ramm.
• Particular kind; by the end of a thing, more ‖ obtuse, or acute.
  • POUNDING, braying, Contusion, stamp.
  • PECKING, Mattock, Pick-ax.

• The Stiffness, or Limberness of the body wherein it is made.
  • BREAKING, Fracture, Rupture, burst, Crack, Crash, Squash, Dash, Flaw, Shatter, shiver, crumble.
  • TEARING▪ torn, dilacerate, rend, rent, ragged, tattered, flittered, jagged, pull in pieces.
• The Figure of the body by which it is made; either ‖ an edge, or a point.
  • CUTTING, Incision gash, slash, hack, hew, chop, rip, chip, snip, slice, section, segment, carve, dissect, whittle, barb, pare, top, lop, curtail, dock, sharpe, keen, Hatchet, Pole-ax.
  • PRICKING, stabbing, Goad, pungent, runn in thrust in, goar.