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ything 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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…

nscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. That no compunctious vistings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Shak.

To shake or agitate. "Concussed with uncertainty." Daniel.

To shake; to agitate. [Obs.] Harvey. -- Con`quas*sa"tion, n. [Obs.]

To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain. With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame. Macaulay.

To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] "Shaken tubs . . . be new cooped." Holland.

ularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown. Without a star, a coronet, or garter. Goldsmith.

ith each other throughout. None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.

Characterized by cup shakes; -- said of timber.

To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.