Shock
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; - a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(2): ( 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.
(3): ( n.) 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.
(4): ( n.) 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.
(5): ( 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.
(6): ( v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
(7): ( v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.
(8): ( n.) 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.
(9): ( v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
(10): ( v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
(11): ( v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
(12): ( n.) A dog with long hair or shag; - called also shockdog.
(13): ( n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
(14): ( a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
(15): ( v. t.) 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
Shock, n.
1. A violent collision of bodies, or the concussion which it occasions a viosent striking or dashing against.
The strong unshaken mounds resist the shocks
Of tides and seas. Blackmore.
2. Violent onset conflict of contending armies or foes.
He stood the shock of a whole host of foes. Addison.
3. External violence as the shocks of fortune. 4. Offense impression of disgust.
Fewer shocks a staesman gives his friend. Young.
5. In electricity, the effect on the animal system of a discharge of the fluid from a charged body. 6. A pile of sheaves of wheat, rey, &c.
And cause it on shocks to be by and by set. Tusser.
Behind th emaster walks, builds up th eshocks. Thomson.
7. In New England, the number of sixteen sheaves of wheat, rye, &c. This is the sense in which this word is generally used with us. 8. A dog with long rough hair or shag. from shag.
1. To shake by the sudden collision of a body. 2. To meet with force to encounter. 3. To strike, as with horror or disgust to cause to recoil, as from something odious or horrible to offend extremely to disgust. I was shocked at the sight of so much misery. A void everything that can shock the feelings of delicacy.
Advise him not to shock a father's will. Dryden.
Shock, To collect sheaves into a pile to pile sheaves.
