shake

1. obs. p. p. of Shake. Source: opted

2. v. To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate. Source: opted

3. v. Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. Source: opted

4. v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. Source: opted

5. v. To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. Source: opted

6. v. i. To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. Source: opted

7. n. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation. Source: opted

8. n. A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. Source: opted

9. n. A fissure in rock or earth. Source: opted

10. n. A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. Source: opted

11. n. One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. Source: opted

12. n. A shook of staves and headings. Source: opted

13. n. The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. Source: opted

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