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otson. Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears. Milton. Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne.

shine day Marlowe. The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. Hocker.

To offend; to shock. [Obs.] Derham.

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

n 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.

the hind leg of a horse. [Written also sellanders, and sellenders.] On the inside of the hock, or a little below it, as well as at the bend of the knee, there is occasionally a scurfy eruption called "mallenders" in the fore leg, and "sallenders" in the hind leg. Youatt.

To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.

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.

Hockey; shinney. Bartlett.

The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell.

A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game. Jamieson.

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.