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Preparation :: Preparation (n.) The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension..

Concussion :: Concussion (n.) A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies.

Rude :: Rude (superl.) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies..

Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger..

Shock-head :: Shock-head (a.) Shock-headed.

Congress :: Congress (n.) A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things.

Hideous :: Hideous (a.) Hateful; shocking.

Shough :: Shough (n.) A shockdog.

Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical..

Dynamite :: Dynamite (n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition..

Masoola Boat :: Masoola boat () A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced..

Shaken :: Shaken (n.) Impaired, as by a shock..

Slidometer :: Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

Brush :: Brush (n.) A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy..

Revolt :: Revolt (v. t.) To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings..

Stagger :: Stagger (v. t.) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.

Seismograph :: Seismograph (n.) An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

Stooked :: Stook (n.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves..

Ghastly :: Ghastly (superl.) Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.

Shock :: Shock (n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like..

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