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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.

SHOCK,

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.