·- obs. ·p.p. of Shake.
II. Shake ·noun A fissure in rock or earth.
III. Shake ·noun A shook of staves and headings.
IV. Shake ·noun One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
V. Shake ·noun A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
VI. Shake ·noun The redshank;
— so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
VII. Shake ·v To give a tremulous tone to; to Trill; as, to shake a note in music.
VIII. Shake ·v Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
IX. Shake ·noun A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
X. Shake ·noun The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
XI. Shake ·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.
XII. Shake ·vi To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to Tremble; to Shiver; to Quake; to Totter.
XIII. Shake ·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.