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of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and c…

See Forkbeard.

Same as Acton. [Obs.]

A shake or fissure between the annual rings of a tree, found oftenest near the roots.

A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. Shak.

Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.

To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.

A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. Sir W. Scott.

A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork. [Obs.]

Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.

A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.

A female Shaker.

Doctrines of the Shakers.

Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works. [Written also Shakespearian, Shakspearean, Shakspearian, Shaksperean, Shaksperian.etc.]

Unshaken. [Obs.] Shak.

Shaken by the wind; specif. (Forestry),

Divinely excellent or beautiful. "Shakes his ambrosial curls." Pope.

e rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

ert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare. Dryden.