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Shake

Definition: obs. p. p. of Shake.

Shake

Definition: 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.

Shake

Definition: Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to
cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.

Shake

Definition: To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note
in music.

Shake

Definition: 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.

Shake

Definition: To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to
tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.

Shake

Definition: The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering
motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or
shivering; agitation.

Shake

Definition: A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too
suddenly.

Shake

Definition: A fissure in rock or earth.

Shake

Definition: A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another
represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.

Shake

Definition: One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.

Shake

Definition: A shook of staves and headings.

Shake

Definition: The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head
while on the ground.