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Percussion effected by the intervention of a finger or a pleximeter between the striking finger or plexor and the part percussed.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

The deputy offered by Leung to mediate, Carrie Lam, is also hated by many.
Hong Kong Between Calm and Chaos|Ben Leung|October 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Still others, especially the percussion instruments, are struck by hammers that move when the air pressure changes.
How to Save Silent Movies: Inside New Jersey’s Cinema Paradiso|Rich Goldstein|October 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I know for a fact that in my own case Oman was asked to mediate on our behalf directly by the US government.
One Former Hostage Says Negotiate With ISIS, And Pay Ransoms If You Must|Sarah Shourd|September 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It runs as a polyphonic symphony compared to the simple percussion section of the heart or the synchronized cellos of the liver.
We're Talking About Depression All Wrong|Jean Kim|August 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The percussion rolls like thunder, the woodwinds climax, the camera swoops upward, and we see the brass plaque: The Olive Garden.
Frank Underwood Will Not Tolerate Insubordination in This Olive Garden|Kelly Williams Brown|February 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A machine for making percussion caps was patented by John Abraham in 1864.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
The carbon dioxid evolved distends the stomach, and its outline can easily be determined by percussion.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
In these instruments fully one-third of the speaking stops rely on percussion for production of their tones.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
The critic steps in between this satirist and the poet—steps in to mediate.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850|Various
The Indians have only old percussion-cap rifles, and not too many of them.
Warrior Gap|Charles King