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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.

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

With dread. [Obs.] "Dreadly to shake." Sylvester (Du Bartas).

To shiver or tremble; to dodder. I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf. Ford.

ertain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.

operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it. Shak.

tlement, or wife's equity, etc. I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken. Kent.

To shake off; to discard. [R.] To excuss the notation of a Geity out of their minds. Bp. Stillingfleet.

, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression. The imitators of Shakespeare, fixing their attention on his wonderful power of expression, have directed their imitation to this. M. Arnold.

Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.] Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).

enteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society. Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.

ase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species. [R.] I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me. Shak.

The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.

ot easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent. Under spread ensigns, moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion. Milton. By one man's firm obediency fully tried. Milton.…

ack of disease; as, a fit of sickness. And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake. Shak.

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

e bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak. No frames could be strong enough to endure it. Prescott.

To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills. Johnson.