| Shock (shock) |
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| Shock |
| [OE. schokke; cf.
OD schocke, G. schock a heap, quantity, threescore, MHG.
schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap of hay,
Lith. kugis.] |
A pile or assemblage of
sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the
sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
A lot
consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to
loose goods.
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To collect, or make
up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock
rye.
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To be occupied with
making shocks.
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A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision,
or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a
sudden violent impulse or onset.
A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings;
a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or
overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
A sudden depression of the
vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some
profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe
injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
The sudden convulsion or
contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused
by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a
charged body.
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To give a shock to] to cause to shake or
waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with
violence.
To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or
disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his
associates.
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To meet with a shock;
to meet in violent encounter.
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A dog with long hair or
shag; -- called also shockdog.
A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head
covered with a shock of sandy hair.
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Bushy; shaggy; as, a
shock hair.
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To
subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more
or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous
system.
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