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Word Meanings - SHAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.

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  • FENCE MONTH
    the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or
  • DELIGHTING
    Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
  • TROUBLER
    One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
  • QUAVER
    An eighth note. See Eighth. (more info) 1. A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
  • QUAVERER
    One who quavers; a warbler.
  • SHIVER-SPAR
    A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
  • AGITATE
    1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
  • WHISKYFIED; WHISKEYFIED
    Drunk with whisky; intoxicated. Thackeray.
  • DELIGHTLESS
    Void of delight. Thomson.
  • VIBRATE
    1. To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate. 2. To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression
  • QUAKERLIKE
    Like a Quaker.
  • FENCER
    One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.
  • SHAKE
    A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. (more info) 1. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other;
  • PERTURBATIVE
    Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing. Sir J. Herschel.
  • PERTURB
    disturb, fr. turba a disorder: cf. OF. perturber. See Per-, and 1. To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet. Ye that . . . perturb so my feast with crying. Chaucer. 2. To disorder; to confuse. Sir T. Browne.
  • WIELDSOME
    Admitting of being easily wielded or managed. Golding.
  • QUAKER
    1. One who quakes. 2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was
  • RUFFLEMENT
    The act of ruffling.
  • TOTTER
    1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • DISSHIVER
    To shiver or break in pieces.
  • DEFENCE
    See DEFENSE
  • OVERTROUBLED
    Excessively troubled.
  • WIND-SHAKEN
    Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
  • EFFLAGITATE
    To ask urgently. Cockeram.
  • TRUFFLE
    Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.

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