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

Of or pertaining to the family of fishes (Gadidæ) which includes the cod, haddock, and hake. -- n.

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

In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly. Hakewill.

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.

A sea fish. See Hake. Ash.

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

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

The name is locally applied to various other fishes, as the California hake, the black candlefish, the jurel, the bluefish, etc. -- Horse marine (Naut.), an awkward, lubbery person; one of a mythical body of marine cavalry. [Slang] -- Horse mussel (Zoöl.), a large, marine mussel (Modiola modiolus), found on the northe…

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

tivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [Obs.] Shak. The painful husband, plowing up his ground. Hakewill. He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations. Evelyn.

or 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.

ation; a portrait or pretended portrait. Netherlands whose names and icons are published. Hakewill.

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

To generate within; to inbreed. [Obs.] Hakewill.

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.