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To comprehend; to include. Comprise much matter in few words. Hocker. Friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon.

A violent shock or agitation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies. It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air. Bacon.

s which . . . the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford. Hocker.

A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things. [Obs.] From these laws may be deduced the rules of the congresses and reflections of two bodies. Cheyne.

A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.

A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock. Knight.

The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness. James Law. Curb bit, a stiff bit having branches by which a leverage is obtained upon the jaws of horse. Knight. -- Curb pins (Horology), the pins on the regulator which restrain the hairsp…

draulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.

chanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.

A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. [Eng.] Weale. -- Driving wheel (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called also, simply, driver. See Illust. of Loco…

wdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.

he earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock. Earthquake alarm, a bell signal constructed to operate on the theory that a few seconds be…

te or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution. Elastic bitumen. (Min.) See Elaterite. -- Elastic curve. (a) (Geom.) The curve made by a thin elastic rod fixed horizontally at one end and loaded at the other. (b)…

lectricus of the Nile). They have a large electrical organ and are able to give powerful shocks; -- called also sheathfish. -- Electric clock. See under Clock, and see Electro-chronograph. -- Electric current, a current or stream of electricity traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting substances, or passing b…

To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to; as, to electrify a limb, or the body.

Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.

d especially in the phrase to forge ahead. Totten. And off she [a ship] forged without a shock. De Quincey.