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A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil. [R.] These inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind. South.

In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter. [Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock. Milton. The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into foam. Boyle.

Having shaggy hair; shock-headed. [Obs.] Those rough rug-headed kerns. Shak.

An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

The art of registering the shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes.

Impaired, as by a shock.

A shock; a jog; a violent concussion or impulse. [R. or Scot.]

A shockdog.

A shock of grain. [Prev.Eng.]

To come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise; as, a door or shutter slams.

An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

nt to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott.

A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. Arbuthnot. My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. Swift.

To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. Whosoever will read the story of this war will find himself much stagered. Howell. Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility. Burke.

A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger. After having recovered from my first startle, I was very well pleased with the accident. Spectator.

A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.

Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.

for use in heavy surf. It is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach.