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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Caused to shake; agitated;

as, a

shaken

bough

Cracked or checked; split. See

Noun.

, 2.

Nor is the wood

shaken

or twisted.

Barroe.

Impaired, as by a shock.

pp.

sha'kn.

1. Impelled with a vacillating motion; agitated.

2. a. 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.]