snail-like; creeping &c. v.; reptatorial[obs3]. 
     Adv. slowly &c. adj.; leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at
half speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail’s pace, at a funeral pace; in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings; haud passibus aequis [Lat][Vergil].
     gradually &c. adj.; gradatim[Lat]; by degrees, by slow degrees, by
inches, by little and little; step by step, one step at a time; inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim; consecutively. 
     Phr. dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit[Lat]; at a glacial pace.

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     #276.  Impulse. —­ N. impulse, impulsion, impetus; momentum; push,
pulsion[obs3], thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost [U.S.], throw; explosion &c. (violence) 173; propulsion &c. 284.
     percussion, concussion, collision, occursion|, clash, encounter,
cannon, carambole[obs3], appulse[obs3], shock, crash, bump; impact; elan; charge &c. (attack) 716; beating &c. (punishment) 972.
     blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip;
slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff &c. 972; squash, dowse, swap, whap[obs3], punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce|, calcitration[obs3]; ruade[obs3]; arietation|; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk|; carom, carrom[obs3], clip *, jab, plug*, sidewinder* [U.S.], sidewipe[obs3], sideswipe [U.S.].
     hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer[obs3];
battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel &c. (weapon) 727; ax &c. (sharp) 253.
     [Science of mechanical forces] dynamics; seismometer, accelerometer,
earthquake detector. 
     V. give an impetus &c. n.; impel, push; start, give a start to, set
going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin[Fr]; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle[obs3], hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one’s head against, run one’s head against; impinge; boost [U.S.]; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug *.
     strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow,
bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse|, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk[obs3]; kick, calcitrate[obs3]; butt, strike at &c. (attack) 716; whip c. (punish) 972.
     come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; sideswipe; foul;
fall foul of, run foul of; telescope.
     throw &c. (propel) 284. 
     Adj. impelling &c. v.; impulsive, impellent[obs3]; booming; dynamic,
dynamical; impelled &c. v. 
     Phr. “a hit, a very palpable hit” [Hamlet].