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Shock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A violent collision of bodies, or the concussion which it occasions; a viosent striking or dashing against.

2. The strong unshaken mounds resist the shocks

3. Of tides and seas. Blackmore .

4. Violent onset; conflict of contending armies or foes.

5. He stood the shock of a whole host of foes. Addison .

6. External violence; as the shocks of fortune.

7. Offense; impression of disgust.

8. Fewer shocks a staesman gives his friend. Young .

9. In electricity , the effect on the animal system of a discharge of the fluid from a charged body.

10. A pile of sheaves of wheat, rey, etc.

11. And cause it on shocks to be by and by set. Tusser .

12. Behind th emaster walks, builds up th e shocks . Thomson .

13. In New England , the number of sixteen sheaves of wheat, rye, etc. [This is the sense in which this word is generally used with us.]

14. A dog with long rough hair or shag. [from shag .]

Shock [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To collect sheaves into a pile; to pile sheaves.

Shock [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

4. Advise him not to shock a father's will. Dryden .

Shock [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

Shock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.

8. A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

Shock [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.

2. To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.

Shock [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To be occupied with making shocks.

2. To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

Shock [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

Shock-head [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Shock-headed.

Shock-headed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a thick and bushy head of hair.

Shockdog [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See 7th Shock, 1.

Shocked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Struck, as with horror; offended; disgusted.

2. Piled, as in sheaves.

Shocked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Shocking [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Striking, as with horror; causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.

2. The French humor- is very shocking to the Italians. Addison .

Shocking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Shaking with sudden violence.

2. Meeting in onset or violent encounter.

3. And now with shouts the shocking armies clos'd. Pope .

Shocking [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.

Shocking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Shockingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a manner to strike with horror or disgust.