·adj Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
II. Shock ·vi To be occupied with making shocks.
III. Shock ·vi To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
IV. Shock ·noun A dog with long hair or shag;
— called also shockdog.
V. Shock ·noun A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
VI. Shock ·noun A lot consisting of sixty pieces;
— a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
VII. Shock ·vt To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to Stook; as, to shock rye.
VIII. Shock ·v To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
IX. Shock ·v To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
X. Shock ·noun A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
XI. Shock ·add. ·vt To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system.
XII. Shock ·noun A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
XIII. Shock ·noun A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
XIV. Shock ·noun The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
XV. Shock ·noun 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.