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science; 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.]

nsort of his bed. Dryden. The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. Thakeray. The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. Darwin.

its themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off. Hakewill.

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.

larly, 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.

th 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.

notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands, Sir H. Wotton.

To deprive of a crown; to discrown. [R.] Hakewill.

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

cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

Milton. Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind. Hakewill.

de field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.

To shake; to put away; to finish. [Obs.] All regard of shame she had discussed. Spenser.

To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat. [Obs.] Hakewill.

e than that a man, naturally inclined to clemency, should show himself unkind and inhuman Hakewill.

To shake, tremble, or totter. "The doddering mast." Thomson.