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.
Shake(v.)
- Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
Shake(v.)
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
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.
Shake(v. i.)
- To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
Shake(n.)
- The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
Shake(n.)
- A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.