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man, a house, or a town. The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

wn by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken.

That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. Hakewill.

ding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak.

thing spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.

Others . . . can not hold, but blurt out, those words which afterward they forced to eat. Hakewill. To blurt at, to speak contemptuously of. [Obs.] Shak.

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish. The quivering lance which he brandished bright. Drake.

To shake; to totter. [Obs.]

Stop; pause; delay. You shake the head at so long a breathing. Shak.

ow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.

Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala [Obs.] Hakewill.

That which is engraved. [Obs.] Hakewill.

ggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century. "Every centenary of years." Hakewill.

To shake or agitate with violence. Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose. Addison.

Circumlocution; detail. [Obs.] So without more circumstance at all I hold it fit that shake hands and part. Shak.

ise made by sudden collision; a bang. "Give the door such a clap, as you go out, as will shake the whole room." Swift.

her nations. Campbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.

A young cod; also, a hake.

A common; public pasture ground. To shake his ears, and graze in commons. Shak. Doctors' Commons, a place near St. Paul's Chuchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, reg…