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

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

rtain 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.

A detailed exposition; relation. [Obs.] Hakewill.

" Shak. St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill.

negotiations, as for a treaty. [Obs.] Of which I shall have further occasion to entreat. Hakewill. Alexander . . . was first that entreated of true peace with them. 1 Mac. x. 47.

lement, 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.

ning; by way of example. She is exemplarily loyal. Howell. Some he punisheth exemplarily. Hakewill.

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).

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

se, "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.

t 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.…

ck 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.

The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.

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.