n. | 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. | (Com.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; - a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. |
v. t. | 1. | To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye. |
v. i. | 1. | To be occupied with making shocks. |
n. | 1. | 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. |
| 2. | 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. |
| 3. | (Med.) 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. |
| 4. | (Elec.) 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. |
v. t. | 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. |
| 3. | (Physiol.) 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. |
v. i. | 1. | To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter. |
n. | 1. | (Zool.) A dog with long hair or shag; - called also shockdog. |
| 2. | A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair. |
a. | 1. | Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair. |