SHAKE, pret. shook pp. shaken.
1. To cause to move with quick vibrations to move rapidly one way and the other to agitate as, the wind shakes a tree an earthquake shakes the hills or the earth.
I shook my lap, and said, so God shake out every man from his house-
Nehemiah 5 .
He shook the sacred honors of his head. Dryden.
-As a fig casteth her untimely fruit, when it is shaken of a mighty wind.
Revelation 6 .
2. To make to totter or tremble.
The rapid wheels shake the heav'n's basis. Milton.
3. To cause to shiver as, an ague shakes the whole frame.
4. To throw down by a violent motion.
Macbeth is ripe for shaking. Shak.
But see shake off, which is generally used.
5. To throw away to drive off.
'Tis our first intent
To shake all cares and business from our age. See Shake off. Shak.
6. To move from firmness to weaken the stability of to endanger to threaten to overthrow. Nothing should shake our belief in the being and perfections of God, and in our own accountableness.
7. To cause to waver or doubt to impair the resolution of to depress the courage of.
That ye be not soon shaken in mind. 2 Thessalonians 2 .
8. To trill as, to shake a note in music.