Crossword clues for shaking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shake \Shake\, v. t. [imp. Shook; p. p. Shaken, ( Shook, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Shaking.] [OE. shaken, schaken, AS. scacan, sceacan; akin to Icel. & Sw. skaka, OS. skakan, to depart, to flee. [root]16
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Cf. Shock, v.] 1. 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.
As a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
--Rev. vi. 13.Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels That shake heaven's basis.
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Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
When his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies, they persecuted his reputation.
--Atterbury.Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced.
--Milton. (Mus.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
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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 off the golden slumber of repose.
--Shak.'Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age.
--Shak.I could scarcely shake him out of my company.
--Bunyan.To shake a cask (Naut.), to knock a cask to pieces and pack the staves.
To shake hands, to perform the customary act of civility by clasping and moving hands, as an expression of greeting, farewell, good will, agreement, etc.
To shake out a reef (Naut.), to untile the reef points and spread more canvas.
To shake the bells. See under Bell.
To shake the sails (Naut.), to luff up in the wind, causing the sails to shiver.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., verbal noun from shake (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A movement that shakes. vb. (present participle of shake English)
WordNet
adj. vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands" [syn: quaking, quivering, shaky, shivering, trembling]
n. the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements
a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitation]
Wikipedia
"Shaking (Party People)" is a song performed by Brazilian recording artist Kelly Key. It is the lead single from Key's seventh studio album Studio K (2012). The song was released on January 5, 2012. It features production from DJ and producer Mr. Jam, who had worked with Brazilian singer Wanessa in her 2011 album DNA and her EP Você não Perde por Esperar.
Usage examples of "shaking".
Yet, when at last the expected step drew near, she shuddered, trembled, and turned pale with affright, and, starting to her feet, looked this way and that with a wild impulse to flee: then, as the door opened, she dropped into her chair again, and covered her face with her shaking hands.
And when she tried to pull you into bed-was He sagged against the aley wall, shaking with laughter.
There I was, with my pants unfastened and my anther in my hand, shaking it over a flower in a big pot.
The doctor grumpily surveyed the gold antrum plug, then dipped its head in the solution again, and repeated his operation of shaking off the drops and letting the film of acid work.
Several learned writers have strenuously labored to prove that the ground secret of the Mysteries, the grand thing revealed in them, was the doctrine of apotheosis, shaking the established theology by unmasking the historic fact that all the gods were merely deified men.
He lit another arette, his hand shaking a little as he lifted the match, then ptly he rose to his feet.
And shaking hands with me now will steer you arse over astragal into the salt mine.
They landed upon the farthest shore under a tall red cliff of stone, and Barca Hamilcar died of the shaking fever which he had carried with him from the pestilential lands of the north.
From the corner of his eye, he saw Batty looking aghast, puckered mouth dropped, shaking his small head.
On ahead the lanthorn-bearer, with arched spine and shaking knees, dragging shuffling footsteps along the corridor, then the corporal with two of his soldiers, then Heron closely followed by de Batz, and finally two more soldiers bringing up the rear.
Sharp, piercing eyes appeared from beneath, beastlike men with bushy, unkempt beards stood straight up out of the snow, raising their cloaks over their heads and shoulders and shaking the powder off, stamping their feet to bring feeling back to their frozen members, blowing puffs of vapor on their hands and rubbing their dry, cracked palms together.
No doubt, in shaking the garments, which hung on a row of pegs above the bunk, Mr Bedo had displaced the writing-case and caused it to close.
There enters a square old man, with a red, pendulous jawed, shaking face under a snow besprinkled bowler hat.
All the while the guest had been smiling more and more broadly, and as Carter slipped into blankness the last thing he saw was that dark odious face convulsed with evil laughter and something quite unspeakable where one of the two frontal puffs of that orange turban had become disarranged with the shakings of that epileptic mirth.
Alan saw a third knifed in the eye and looked back to see Bonner, shaking, looking up at him.