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

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

Shaken by the wind; specif. (Forestry),

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.

ther nations. Campbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. De Quincey.

To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] "Shaken tubs . . . be new cooped." Holland.

cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

tlement, or wife's equity, etc. I consider the wife's equity to be too well settled to be shaken. Kent.

ot easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent. Under spread ensigns, moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion. Milton. By one man's firm obediency fully tried. Milton.…

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

Not lacking or deficient; full; complete. Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over. Luke vi. 38.

Slight symptom of disease. [Obs.] Our shaken monarchy, that now lies . . . struggling againat the grudges of more dreaded calamities. Milton.

Not concussible; that cannot be shaken.

To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. [Obs.] Wiseman.

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.

olting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground. The first jolt had like to have shaken me out. Swift.

on to another; as, a ship moves rapidly. The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. Ps. xviii. 7. On the green bank I sat and listened long, ... Nor till her lay was ended could I move. Dryden.

Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.

A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contr…