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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.]

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.

Unshaken. [Obs.] Shak.

Shaken by the wind; specif. (Forestry),

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

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

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

a man, a house, or a town. The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

own by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken.

dding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak.