Percuss
- v. i. To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.
- v. t. To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.