shakedown

A temporary substitute for a bed, as one formed on a chair or the floor. (From straw being in old times used to form a rough bed.) "A shake-down had been ordered even in Mr. Barry's own study."-Mrs. Hall: Sketches of Irish Character, p. 137. IMG:content-1300.png:[blocks in formation] Cotton-man.: A willowing machine for cleaning cotton, preparatory to carding. shake-bŭck-ler, s. [Eng. shake, and buckler.) A swashbuckler; a bully. shāk-en, pa.par. & a. [SHAKE, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Caused to shake; agitated. 2. Cracked or split; as, shaken timber. 3. Injured by a sudden fall or shock. Shāk-er, s . & a. [Eng. shak (e), v.; -er.] IMG:content-1301.png:[blocks in formation] (1) A name given to an American sect of celibates of both sexes, founded by Ann Lee, an English emigrant, about 1776, from their using a kind of dance in their religious exercises, but who call themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. Their chief settlement is at Mount Lebanon, in the State of New York. Their foundre Ens called the Elect Lady, and Mother of all the Rev. xii. The Shakers profe to have pa ed through death and the resurrection into a state of grace the Resurrection order, in which the love which leads to marriage is not allowed, and are known as brothers and sisters. They abstain from wine and pork, live on the land and shun towns. They cultivate the virtues of sobriety, prudence, to be the mentioned in shake, s. [SHAKE, v.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of shaking; a rapid motion one way and the other; a shock or concu ion; agitation, vibration. "I judge of a friend by the shake of his hand." Ritson: Miscellanies, s. 80. 2. A crack in timber caused by great heat, rapid drying, seasoning, . 3. A crack or fi ure in the earth. ( Prov .) 4. A brief moment; an instant. ( Colloq .) "I'll be back in a couple of shakes ." Barham: In golds by Legends; Babes in the Wood. 5. ( Pl .): A trembling fit; spec if., ague, intermit IMG:content-1302.png:[blocks in formation] contention, and repudiate war. They affect to hold communion with the dead, and believe in angels and spirits, not as a theological dogma, but as a practical fact. "In many of their ideas the Shakers would appear to be followers of the E enes Their church is based on these grand ideas: The kingdom of heaven has come, Christ has actually appeared on earth; the personal rule of God has been restored; the old law is abolished; the command to multiply has ceased; Adam's sin has been atoned; the intercourse of heaven and earth has been restored; the curse is taken away from labor; the earth, and all that is on it, will be redeemed; angeis and spirits have become, as of old, the familiars and ministers of men."-W. H. Dixon : New America (ed. 1869), p. 282. (2) An English Millenarian sect founded by Mrs. Mary Anne Girling, who gave out that she was a new incarnation of the Deity, and could never die. Her followers established a community on the borders of the New Forest; but Mrs. Girling died on Sept. 18, 1886, and shortly afterward her followers dispersed. "Under a railway arch at Walworth she commenced her meetings, and it was there that, owing to the dancing and jumping practiced by some of her followers at their devotion, they were called Shakers ." -Christian Age , Oct. 13, 1886. B. As adj .: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Shakers; manufactured by the Shakers; as, Shaker lands, Shaker flannel, . [A.II. 2. (1).] "Gentiles working on the Shaker lands." - W. H. Dixon, New America (ed. 1869), p. 280. Shāk-er-ě , s. [Eng. Shaker ; -e .] A female Shaker. "The Shaker is a monk, the Shakere a nun."-WH Dizon: New America (ed. 1869), p. 274. Shakerism Shāk-er-işm, subst . [Eng. Shaker; -ism.] The principles or teaching of the Shakers. "It is a land, too, where every po ible experiment has been tried, from Shakerism to Polygamy, and where every doctrine finds apostles, disciples, and dupes."-London Daily Telegraph . Shake-spear-I-an, Shāk-spear-i-an, Shakespëar-e-an, Shāk-spër-i-an, Shāk-spër-e-an, a. [Eng. Shakespeare ; -an.] Pertaining or relating to, or resembling Shakespeare. shak-i-ne , s. [Eng.shaky; -ne .) The quality or state of being shaky. shāk-ing, pr. par. or a. [SHAKE, V.] shaking-frame, s. IMG:content-1303.png:[blocks in formation]