shake (shak)

[ Your pencil rivals the dramatic art of Mr. Puff in the Critic, who crammed a whole complicated sentence into the expre ive shake of Lord Burleigh's head. Scott, Bride of Lammer moor, i. 2. A shock or concu ion; especially, a shock that disarranges or impairs; rude or violent attack or treatment. The great soldier's honour was composed Of thicker stuff, which could endure a shake . shaker a trill: indicated by the mark tr . , with or with- out the sign w . According to modern usage, the prin- cipal tone is sounded first, and receives the accent through- out; but in old music the reverse was the case. If the subsidiary tone is chromatically altered, this is indicated by a sharp or a flat added to the sign of the shake. A shake is usually concluded with a turn, and often preceded by a prefix of one or more tones; in the latter case it is said to be prepared . A shake occurring in two or three voice- parts at once is called double or triple . A succe ion of shakes is called a chain . A shake inserted in the midst of a rapid or flowing melody is called pa ing . 6. A brief moment; an instant: as, to do a thing in a couple or brace of shakes , or in the shake of a lamb's tail (that is, to do it imme- diately). [Slang.] I'll be back in a couple of shakes , So don't, dears, be quivering and quaking. Barham, In golds by Legends, II. 166. Now Dragon [a mastiff] could kill a wolf in a brace of shakes . C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, xciii. ( Davies .) 7. A crack or fi ure in timber, produced during growth by strain of wind, sudden changes of temperature, or causes not well determined, or formed during seasoning. Nearly all exogenous woods are in some degree subject to this defect, which appears in several forms. Heart - shake is a fi ure through the center or pith, slight or serious, in its simplest form running the length of the trunk in one plane, in some specimens twisted. Another cleft may cro at right angles. Star - shake consists of radial fi ures, sometimes even reaching the circumference. Cup- shake consists of clefts between the concentric layers, occurring most often near the root. All these shakes are commonly called wind-shakes. It [the teak] shrinks very little in seasoning, and has no shakes upon the outer surface of the log. Laslett , Timber, p. 113. 8. A fi ure in the earth. [Prov. Eng.]-9. A long shingle or stave: same as clapboard, 2. -10. In printing, a blurred or doubled print made by a shaking or moving of the sheet under impre ion. [Eng.]-11. The redshank, Totanus calidris: so called from its constant nodding or bobbing of the body. See cut under redshank. C.Swains on. [Conne mar a, Ireland.] - Great shakes, literally, a thing of great account; something extraordinary; something of value or worth: usually in the negative. [Slang.] I had my hands full, and my head too, just then, so it ["Marino Faliero"] can be no great shakes . I mean the play. Byron, To Murray, Sept. 28, 1820. It were th' Queen's drawing-room, they said, and th' carriages went bowling along toward her house, some wi' dre ed up gentlemen.. in 'em, and rucks o' ladies in others. Carriages themselves were great shakes too. Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, ix. [ shake , v., + obj. shake-bag (shāk'bag), n . bag1 .] A large-sized game-cock. Halt i well . Wit. Will you go to a cock-match? Sir Wil . With a wench, Tony? Is she a shake - bag , sirrah? Congreve, Way of the World, iv. 11. shake-bucklert (shākʼbuklėr), n. [ shake , v., + obj. buckler .] A swaggerer; a swashbuckler; a bully. Let the parents.. by no means suffer them to live idly, nor to be of the number of such Sim Shake - bucklers as in their young years fall unto serving, and in their old years fall into beggary. Becon, Works, II. 355. ( Davies. ) shake-down (shāk'doun), n. A temporary bed made by shaking down or spreading hay, rushes, or the like, or also quilts or a mattre , with coverings, on the floor, on a table, etc. [Colloq.] I would not choose to put more on the floor than two beds, and one shake - down, which will answer for five. Mi Edge worth , Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, i. 3. In the better lodging-houses the shake - downs are small pallia es or mattre es; in the worst, they are bundles of rags of any kind; but loose straw is used only in the country for shake - downs. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 272. shake-fork (shāk'fôrk), n. [Also dial. shack fork ; shake + fork .] A fork with which to to hay about; in her . , a bearing resembling the pall, but not reaching the edges of the escutcheon: the three extremities are usually pointed bluntly. G. Herbert, The Church Porch. shaken (sha'kn), p. a. 1. Im His brain has undergone an unlucky shake. Swift , Tale of a Tub, ix. 3. A tremor; a quaver; a shiver. Tis he; I am caught; I must stand to it stoutly, And shew no shake of fear. Fletcher , Rule a Wife, iv. 1. But Hepzibah could not rid herself of the sense of something unprecedented at that instant pa ing, and soon to be accomplished. Her nerves were in a shake . Hawthorne , Seven Gables, xvi. paired; weakened; disordered; undermined: as, one shaken in health. Shake-fork. Be mov'd with pitty at the afflicted state of this our shaken Monarchy, that now lies labouring under her throwes. Milton , Reformation in Eng., ii. 2. Cracked or split: as, shaken timber. Nor is the wood shaken nor twisted, as those about Cape Town. Barrow , Travels. 4. A trembling-fit; a chill; specifically, in the plural and with the definite article, the shakes, shaker (shā'ker), n. [ ague; intermittent fever; also, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]-5. In music, a melodic embellishment consisting of the rapid alternation of a principal tone with a tone one degree above it; One who or that which shakes. Thou Earth's drad Shaker (at whose only Word Th' Eolian Scouts are quickly still'd and stirr'd), Lift vp my soule. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. shaker 2. Specifically, any mechanical contrivance for shaking: as, a carpet- shaker.-3. [ cap.] A member of a religious denomination founded in Manchester, England, about the middle of the eighteenth century: so called, popularly, from the agitations or movements which form part of their ceremonial. Its members call them selves "the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing," which they maintain took place in 1770 through Mother Ann Lee, their founder, and continued in those who embraced her testimony. They hold that God is male and female, and that he has given to man four revelations, through the patriarchs as the Great Spirit, through the law of Moses and the prophets as Jehovah, through Christ and the primitive disciples as the Father, and through Ann Lee and her succe ors as the Eternal Mother: the last is to be continuous. They practise oral confe ion, celibacy, and community of goods, and hold the doctrines of continence, non-resistance, and non-participation in any earthly government. They pecu liar dre , and engage chiefly in agriculture (especially the production of herbs) and the manufacture of simple arti cles, such as brooms and mats. Their principal settlement is at New Lebanon in New York, where they have been since about 1780. 4. The quaking-gra , Briza media. [Prov. Eng.]-5. A breed of domestic pigeons. See pigeon, 1 (c).