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