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To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet. All the ground With shivered armor strown. Milton.

A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset. These strong, unshaken mounds resist the shocks Of tides and seas tempestuous. Blackmore. He stood the shock of a whole host of foes. Addison.…

Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting. The grossest and most shocking villainies. Secker. -- Shock"ing*ly, adv. -- Shock"ing*ness, n.

his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen. Sir W. Raleigh. Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame. Dryden.

A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary. [Slang.]

A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

A hard blow. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction. Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits. Selden. Sits the wind in that quarter Sir W. Scott.

A blow; a smart stroke. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.

ntly and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. Spenser.

One who strikes heavy blows; hence, a boxer; a prize fighter. [Cant or Slang]

A quick, smart blow; a slap. Johnson.

To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matt. v. 39. And David . . . took thence a stone, and…

A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.

epercussion of the other end, or beak, within the article worked upon gives the requisite blow for producing raised work. See 1st Snarl.

A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.

The clear of mucus; to blow. [Obs.] "Snetting his nose." Holland.

To blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle. [Obs. or Scot.]

To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.