Shock
n.- 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.
- (Com.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
v. t.
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To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook;
as, to .shock rye
v. i.
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To be occupied with making shocks.
n.
- 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.
- (Med.) 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.
- (Elec.) 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.
v. t.
- To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
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To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil;
as, his violence .shocked his associates - (Physiol.) 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.
v. i.
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To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
n.
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(Zoöl.) 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
a.
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Bushy; shaggy;
as, a .shock hair