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as, individuallyhe same. [Omniscience], an attribute individually proper to the Godhead. Hakewill.

. [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.

ause 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.

To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against. "Bullies jostled him." Macaulay. Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other. I. Taylor.

To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.

p; to light the gas; -- sometimes with up. If a thousand candles be all lighted from one. Hakewill. And the largest lamp is lit. Macaulay. Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this. Addison.

An American hake of the genus Phycis. [Canada]

Learned or literary men. See Literatus. Shakespearean commentators, and other literati. Craik.

ction; shape; form. It our perfection of so frail a make As every plot can undermine and shake Dryden. On the make,bent upon making great profits; greedy of gain. [Low, U. S.]

Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution. I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus. Shak.

Match"a*ble*ness, n. Sir Walter Raleigh . . . is matchable with the best of the ancients. Hakewill.

The European hake; -- called also herring hake and sea pike.

Chaucer. Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine. Bacon. He mortified pearls in vinegar. Hakewill.