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To pack, as staves, in a shook.

r mingled with respect. [Obs. or Obsolescent] His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe. Cowper.

To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.] They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser.

a commotion. Those two massy pillars, With horrible convulsion, to and fro He tugged, he shook, till down they came. Milton. Times of violence and convulsion. Ames.

, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope.

ring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. Shak. To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.

To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down. Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along. Arbuthnot.

character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats.

To embrace closely; to hug. Leucothoe shook at these alarms, And pressed Palemon closer in her arms. Pope.

To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.

Dewy. [R.] And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet. Fairfax.

Dry; withered. Same as Sear. But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. Coleridge.

to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. When his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies, they persecuted his reputation. Atterbury. Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced. Milton.

ll a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. Dryden.

pl. of Shoe. [Archaic] Chaucer. They shook the snow from hats and shoon. Emerson.

fort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream. He tugged, he shook, till down they came. Milton.