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A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius.

Not lacking or deficient; full; complete. Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over. Luke vi. 38.

Covered with gore or clotted blood. Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me. Shak.

Slight symptom of disease. [Obs.] Our shaken monarchy, that now lies . . . struggling againat the grudges of more dreaded calamities. Milton.

Strong; firm; compact. [A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric. South.

An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.

. Chaucer. "Fair host and Earl." Tennyson. Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.

for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors. [Eng.] When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies. Tennyson.

To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. Macaulay.

e; a literary blunder. The many blunders and illiteracies of the first publishers of his [Shakespeare's] works. Pope.

e a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five. The whole included race, his purposed prey. Milton. The loss of such a lord includes all harm. Shak.…

Not concussible; that cannot be shaken.

s. [Obs.] The stings and remores of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them. South.

cause a short, tremulous motion of, to cause to tremble, as by a sudden shock or blow; to shake; to shock; as, to jar the earth; to jar one's faith.

A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion. His jade gave him a jerk. B. Jonson.

To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] Wiseman.

To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.

To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle. The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. Pope.

To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn. Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see Yonder well- favored youth Donne. Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side. Pope.

To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.