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The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken. Gayton.

To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. Sir I. Newton.

To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. Shak. And left the limbs still quivering on the ground. Addison.

ite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.

rce lion in his kind Which goeth rampant after his prey. Gower. [The] lion . . . rampant shakes his brinded mane. Milton.

of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. Byron.

f horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the south (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang. Ground rattlesnake (Zoöl.), a small rattlesnake (C…

To obtain or seize by violence. Hakewill.

A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

A second access or approach; a return. Hakewill.

To jolt or shake again. Locke.

rately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off. Shak.

A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet. Shake off the golden slumber of repose. Shak.

To shake; to quake; to tremble. [Obs.] "It made all the gates for to rese." Chaucer.

njury, or destruction. The imminent and constant risk of assassination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves. Macaulay.

. Such was his power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring. Wirt.

A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps "fattened in the rump, pampered." "The rump-fed ronyon."

nbalanced. [R.] the mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear. Shak.

cites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation. In all pleasures there is satiety. Hakewill. But thy words, with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. Milton.

ience or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass. Hammond. Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy. Coleridge.