shakenadj.
/ˈʃeɪk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈʃeɪkən/ 1. Put into a quick or violent alternating motion; agitated; (of seed, etc.) sprinkled.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > sprinkled
snewed1300
sprengeda1382
strinkledc1440
sprinkled1557
spattered1647
insprinkled1671
insperged1683
shaken1725
spluttery1866
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [adjective] > shaking > shaken
shook1695
shaken1849
1725 P. Blair Pharmaco-botanologia iii. 130 If..no Care has been taken to Till the Ground over the shaken Seed.
1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 189 A Chief, With shout and shaken spear, Stands at the prow.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvi. 97 For the moment she felt like a shaken child.
2.
a. Moved abruptly or violently with a blow or shock; hence, weakened in structure.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > weakened
weakened1548
shaken1614
shaked1673
the world > movement > impact > [adjective] > relating to shock of impact or collision > struck by
shaken1614
shaked1673
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ii. 68 And bands of foot come follow on, This shaken bridge goe set vpon.
a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. J. W. von Goethe Scenes from Faust in Posthumous Poems (1824) 404 And through the ruins of the shaken mountain The airs hiss and howl.
1858 R. Mallet in Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. 58 The shaken area [of an earthquake].
b. transferred and figurative.
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1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 87 This our shaken Monarchy, that now lies labouring under her throwes.
1890 H. R. Gall Mod. Tactics (ed. 2) 131 Against shaken troops the opportunities will possibly be as great..in the future.
1896 F. Mathew Wood of Brambles ix. 176 He is a shaken irritable kindly lean little man.
3. Of a cask: Taken to pieces and bound up in a compact form for transport. (Cf. shake n.1 10a, shook n.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [adjective] > types of
shaken1557
unhoopable1672
open-headed1736
scuttled1743
uncoopered1757
shook1768
unhooped1860
staveless1892
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > taken apart > specifically of casks
shaken1557
1557 Let. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1598) I. 300 We haue laden in these ships..94. tunnes shaken Caske and 46. tunnes whole.
1575 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 437 There must be..800. emptie shaken hogsheds.
1792 Descr. Kentucky 41 In 1787 were exported Shaken hogsheads 4,775.
4. Of timber: Cracked or split defectively.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > affected by shake
shaken?1523
ring shaken1842
shaky1868
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > cracked
shaken?1523
shaky1703
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xliiv If it be no tymber tree: but a shaken tree, or a hedge rote full of knottes.
1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 172 Such Stuff as is crackt either with the heat of the Sun or the droughth of the wind, is called Shaken Stuff.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xii. 206 If your Stuff prove shaken, or otherwise unsound.
1852 J. Fincham Outl. Ship Building (ed. 3) ii. 32 The refuse of the other planking through its being shaken, or otherwise defective.
5. Mining. (See quots.)
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective] > loose texture > lacking cohesion
slackc1440
running1598
incoherent1695
incohering1713
shaken1747
incohesive1881
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. U4 Swallow, a loose and shaken place in a Vein.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 965 Troubles in coal-fields are..3. Shaken coal. It resembles the rubbish of an old waste.
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shaken baby syndrome n. Medicine an often fatal form of brain injury in infants, with intracranial and retinal haemorrhage, caused by or attributed to violent shaking or impact to the head; abbreviated SBS.
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1974 J. Caffey in Pediatrics 54 396/1 The report..presents the essential clinical manifestations of the whiplash shaken infant syndrome.]
1982 People (Nexis) 8 Nov. 145 Among the life-long effects that may follow such damage, says [Stephen] Ludwig, are loss of vision, loss of control over a limb, epilepsy and mental retardation. Ludwig calls it the ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’.
1989 Arch. Ophthalmol. 107 1472 Shaken baby syndrome consists of intracranial and intraocular hemorrhage in the absence of signs of direct trauma in infants who have sustained whiplash/shaking injuries.
2000 Police Rev. 4 Feb. 15/1 We have been fortunate enough to receive a research award from the Home Office to study the police response to ‘shaken baby syndrome’.
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