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v.
To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
v.
To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
n.
Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
a.
Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
v. i.
To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
a.
Shock-headed.
v. t.
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
n.
That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.
superl.
Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
v. i.
To be occupied with making shocks.
a.
Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
n.
A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
n.
A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
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n.
See 7th Shock, 1.
n.
Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
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n.
An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.
a.
Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.
n.
A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
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