SHAKEN, participle passive sha'kn. 1. Impelled with a vacillating motion; agitated. 2. adjective Cracked or split; as shaken timber. Nor is the wood shaken nor twisted, as those about Capetown. Barrow. [Our mechanics usually pronounce this shaky, forming the word from shake, like pithy, from pith.]
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