To leape backe and step away quicklie. Grando resilit culmine recti. Ouid. In spatium resilire manus breue vider. Ouid. He saw his hands sodainelie become shorter. Resilire dicitur mamma, quando sterilescit. Plin. To leese the milke and become lanke: to fal. Resilire licet emptori, meliore conditione oblata si hoc erat nominatim actum. Vlpian. The buyer may go from his bargaine haning a better offred him, if it were so erpresselie mentioned. Ab hoc crimen resilic. Ci. There is no fault to be laide on him: no fanlt doth rest in him.

I. Lit.: (exit in terram) in Indiae fluminibus certum genus piscium, ac deinde resilit, Plin. 9, 19, 35, 71: recedere sensim datur (oratoribus): Quidam et resiliunt, quod est plane ridiculum, Quint. 11, 3, 127: (ranae) saepe In gelidos resilire lacus, Ov. M. 6, 374: piratae in aquas suas, Flor. 3, 6, 6: velites ad manipulos, Liv. 30, 33 fin.: a taetro veneno, Lucr. 4, 685: polypus ab odore cunilae, Plin. 10, 70, 90, 195; 34, 8, 19, 75.—

b. Transf., of things as subjects, to spring back, start back, rebound, recoil, retreat, Lucr. 4, 347: juvenis ferit ora sarissā. Non secus haec resilit, quam tecti a culmine grando, Ov. M. 12, 480: ignis ab ictu, Plin. 2, 54, 55, 142: (cervices) ab imposito nuper jugo, Flor. 4, 12, 2: resilire guttas, Plin. 11, 15, 15, 39: radii infracti, id. 2, 38, 38, 103: vulvae tactu, id. 22, 13, 15, 31: (Taurus mons) resilit ad Septentriones, retreats, recedes, id. 5, 27, 27, 97: in spatium resilire manus breve vidit, to shrink, contract, Ov. M. 3, 677; cf.: (mamma) detracto alumno suo sterilescit ilice ac resilit, Plin. 11, 40, 95, 234. —

II. Trop., to recoil, start back, shrink from: ubi scopulum offendis ejusmodi ut ab hoc crimen resilire videas, Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 79: instandum iis, quae placere intellexeris, resiliendum ab iis, quae non recipientur, Quint. 12, 10, 56: ut liceret resilire emptori, meliore conditione allatā, to withdraw, recede, Dig. 18, 2, 9.