Definition of shake

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Shake (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..

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Water Hammer :: Water hammer () A vessel partly filled with water, exhausted of air, and hermetically sealed. When reversed or shaken, the water being unimpeded by air, strikes the sides in solid mass with a sound like that of a hammer..
Shake :: Shake (v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music..
Quake :: Quake (v. i.) To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake..
Include :: Include (v. t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five..
Jiggle :: Jiggle (v. i.) To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.
Shiver :: Shiver (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear..
Rattlesnake :: Rattlesnake (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang..
Nerve :: Nerve (n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution..
Obstinacy :: Obstinacy (n.) 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..
Overshake :: Overshake (v. t.) To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse.
Rejolt :: Rejolt (v. t.) To jolt or shake again.
Frill :: Frill (v. i.) To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills..
Buttercup :: Buttercup (n.) A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare..
Totter :: Totter (v. i.) To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age..
Coronet :: Coronet (n.) An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown..
Shake :: Shake () obs. p. p. of Shake.
Touch :: Touch (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes..
Jingle :: "Jingle (v. t.) To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle..
Shake :: Shake (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
Shake :: Shake (v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
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