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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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