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obs. p. p. of Shake. |
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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. |
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Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to
cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. |
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To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note
in music. |
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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. |
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To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to
tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. |
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The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering
motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or
shivering; agitation. |
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A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too
suddenly. |
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A fissure in rock or earth. |
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A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another
represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. |
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One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. |
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A shook of staves and headings. |
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The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head
while on the ground. |