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Bible Dictionaries
Shock
Webster's Dictionary
or (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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Shock'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/shock.html. 1828.
