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Word Meanings - JARRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Shaking; disturbing; discordant. "A jarring sound." Dryden.

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  • SHIVER-SPAR
    A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
  • JARRAH
    The mahoganylike wood of the Australian Eucalyptus marginata. See Eucalyptus.
  • JARRING
    Shaking; disturbing; discordant. "A jarring sound." Dryden.
  • SHAKINESS
    Quality of being shaky.
  • TREMBLING
    Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- Trem"bling*ly, adv. Trembling poplar , the aspen.
  • TREMBLE
    1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
  • SHAKY
    1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
  • SHAKO
    A kind of military cap or headress.
  • SHAKESPEAREAN
    Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
  • QUIVERED
    1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
  • SHAKEN
    1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. 2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. 3. Impaired, as by a shock.
  • SHAKE
    obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.
  • VIBRATORY
    Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.
  • SHAKER
    A variety of pigeon. P. J. Selby. (more info) 1. A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. 2. One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms
  • TREMBLER
    One who trembles.
  • QUIVER
    Nimble; active. " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
  • SHIVERINGLY
    In a shivering manner.
  • SHAKERISM
    Doctrines of the Shakers.
  • SHAKEFORK
    A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
  • SHAKINGS
    Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  • MOJARRA
    Any of certain basslike marine fishes (mostly of tropical seas, and having a deep, compressed body, protracile mouth, and large silvery scales) constituting the family Gerridæ, as Gerres plumieri, found from Florida to Brazil and used as food.
  • DISSHIVER
    To shiver or break in pieces.
  • WIND-SHAKEN
    Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
  • OVERSHAKE
    To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.

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