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SHAHZADPORE, a town of Bengal, district of Nattore. 
Lat. 24. 12. N. long. 89. 43. E. 
SHAIGI, a village of Nubia, situated on an island in the 
Nile; 130 miles east of Dongola. 
SHAIGOL, a town of Korassan in Persia; 10 miles 
south-west of Meru. 
To SHAIL, v. n. [Teut. sc/iahl, obliquus.] To walk 
sideways. A low •word. Unused. —Child, you must walk 
strait, without skiewing and shading to every step you set. 
L'Estrange. 
SHAIMA, a small sea-port of Mekran, in Persia; 200 
miles west-south-west of Kej. 
SHAINT, or Holy Isles, three small islands of the 
Hebrides, lying in the channel betwixt the isles of Lewis 
and Sky, and in the district of the former. One is called 
Ilian Moair, or St. Mary’s island, and has a chapel on it, 
which was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. These islands are 
famous for pasturing sheep and black cattle. One family 
resides on the largest of them, for the purpose of tending the 
cattle. 
SHAIRGUR, a town of Hindostan, province of Delhi, 
and district of Bareily. Lat. 28. 40. N. long. 79. 21. E. 
SHAIZAK, a village of Syria, in the Orontes, in the pa- 
chalic of Damascus; 20 miles north of Hamah. 
SHAK, a village of Shirvan, in Persia; 20 miles north¬ 
west of Schamachie. 
To SHAKE, v. a. pret. shook; part. pass, shaken, or 
shook; and formerly shaked. [jcacan, j-ceacan. Sax. 
schocken, Teut.] To put into a vibrating motion; to move 
with "quick returns backwards and forwards ; to agitate.—I 
will shake mine hand upon-them, and they shall be a spoil 
to their servants. Zech. —The stars fell unto the earth, even 
as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of 
a mighty wind. Rev. 
He shook the sacred honours of his head : 
With terror trembled heav’n’s subsiding hill, 
And from his shaken curls ambrosial dews distil. Dri/den. 
To make to totter or tremble. 
Wert thou some star, which from the ruin’d roof 
Of shak'd Olympus by mischance didst fall ? Milton. 
The rapid wheels shake heaven’s basis. Milton. —To 
throw down by a violent motion. 
The tyrannous breathing of the North 
Shakes all our buds from blowing. Shakspeare. 
He looked at his book, and, holding out his right leg, put 
it into such a quivering notion, that I thought he would have 
shaked it off. Taller. —To throw away ; to drive off. 
’Tis our first intent 
To shake all cares and business from our age. Shakspeare. 
To weaken ; to put in danger.—When his doctrines grew 
too strong to be shook by his enemies, they persecuted his 
reputation. Atterbury. —To drive from resolution; to 
depress; to make afraid.—A sly and constant knave, not to 
be shak'd. Shakspeare. 
Not my firm faith 
Can by his fraud be shaken or seduc’d. Milton. 
. To Shake hands. This phrase, from the action used 
among friends at meeting and parting, sometimes signifies to 
join with, but commonly to take leave of. 
With the slave, 
He ne’er shook hands, nor bid farewel to him, 
Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops. 
Shakspeare. 
Nor can it be safe to a king to tarry among them who are 
shaking hands with their allegiance, under pretence of 
laying faster hold of their religion. Icon Basi/ike. 
To Shake of. To rid himself of; to free from; to 
divest of. 
Be pleas’d that I shake o f these names you give me: 
Antonio never yet was thief or pirate. Skakspearc. 
S H A 
If I could shake off but one seven years. 
From these old arms and legs. 
I’d with thee every foot. Shakspeare. 
To SHAKE, v. n. To be agitated with a vibratory 
motion. To totter. 
Under his burning wheels 
The stedfast empyrean shook throughout. Milton. 
To tremble; to be unable to keep the body still. 
Thy sight, which should 
Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts, 
Constrains them weep, and shake with fear and sorrow. 
Shakspeare. 
What said the wench, when he rose up again? 
—Trembled and shook, for why, he stamp’d. 
As if the vicar meant to cozen him. Shakspeare. 
To be in terror; to be deprived of firmness. 
He short of succours, and in deep despair. 
Shook at the dismal prospect of the war. Dryden. 
SHAKE, s. Concussion suffered. 
But the great soldier’s honour was compos’d 
Of thicker stuff, which could endure a shake. Herbert. 
Impulse; moving power.—The freeholder is the basis of 
all other titles: this is the substantial stock, without which 
they are no more than blossoms that would fall away with 
every shake of wind. Addison. —Vibratory motion.— 
Several of his countrymen probably lived within the shake 
of the earthquake, and the shadow of the eclipse, which are 
recorded by this author. Addison. —Motion given and 
received.—Our salutations were very hearty on both sides, 
consisting of many kind shakes of the hand. Addison .— 
In music the alternate prolation of two notes in juxta-position 
to each other, with a close on the note immediately beneath 
the lower of them.—A Scottish song admits of no cadence ; 
I mean by this, no fanciful or capricious descant upon the 
close of the tune. There is one embellishment, however, 
which a fine singer may easily acquire, that is, an easy 
shake. Tytler. 
SHA'KEFORK, s. A fork to toss hay about. Unused. 
SHA'KER, s. The person or thing that shakes. 
Go then, the guilty at thy will chastise, 
He said; the shaker of the earth replies. Rope. 
SHAKER-PIGEON, a kind of pigeons of which there 
are two sorts, the broad-tailed, and the narrow-tailed. See 
Columba. 
SHAKERS, a sect which originated in Lancashire, with 
some deserters from the society of Quakers, or Friends, 
about the year 1747, and which continued for some time 
unconnected with every denomination of Christians. During 
this period, their testimony, derived, as they fancied and 
pretended, from what they saw by vision and revelation from 
God, was, “that the second appearing of Christ was at 
hand, and that the church was rising in her full and tran- 
scendant glory, which would effect the final downfall of 
Antichrist.” From the shaking of their bodies in religious 
exercises, they were denominated Shakers, and by some 
persons they were called Shaking Quakers. The sect seems 
to have made no great progress until the year 1770, when 
the testimony originally announced was fully opened, ac¬ 
cording to the special gift and revelation of God through 
Ann Lee, who was bom of obscure parentage, at Man¬ 
chester, about the year 1736; and who, having joined the 
society in 1758, became afterwards a distinguished leader 
among them. Her exercises, both of body and of mind, 
were singularly trying and severe for about the term of nine 
years ; but she was thus prepared for receiving the testimony 
of God, against- the whole corruption of man, in its root 
and every branch. Accordingly, her testimony was in the 
power of God, attended with the word of prophecy, and 
such energy of the Spirit, as penetrated into the secrets of 
the heart, and was irresistible, especially in those with whom 
she was united. 
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