SPage 201
- English Word Shah Definition The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia.
- English Word Shahin Definition A large and swift Asiatic falcon (Falco pregrinator) highly valued in falconry.
- English Word Shaik Definition See Sheik.
- English Word Shail Definition To walk sidewise.
- English Word Shake Definition obs. p. p. of Shake.
- English Word Shake Definition 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.
- English Word Shake Definition Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
- English Word Shake Definition To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
- English Word Shake Definition 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.
- English Word Shake Definition To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
- English Word Shake Definition The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
- English Word Shake Definition A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
- English Word Shake Definition A fissure in rock or earth.
- English Word Shake Definition A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- English Word Shake Definition One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- English Word Shake Definition A shook of staves and headings.
- English Word Shake Definition The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- English Word Shakedown Definition A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose.
- English Word Shakefork Definition A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
- English Word Shaken Definition of Shake
- English Word Shaken Definition Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.
- English Word Shaken Definition Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2.
- English Word Shaken Definition Impaired, as by a shock.
- English Word Shaker Definition A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
- English Word Shaker Definition One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part of their worship.
- English Word Shaker Definition A variety of pigeon.
- English Word Shakeress Definition A female Shaker.
- English Word Shakerism Definition Doctrines of the Shakers.
- English Word Shakespearean Definition Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works.
- English Word Shakiness Definition Quality of being shaky.