• | obs. p. p. of Shake. |
• | To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate. |
• | Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. |
• | To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. |
• | To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. |
• | To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. |
• | The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation. |
• | A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. |
• | A fissure in rock or earth. |
• | A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. |
• | One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. |
• | A shook of staves and headings. |
• | The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. |
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