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Shakier
- adjective - inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"
- not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage"
- vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"
Shakily
- adverb - in a manner characterized by trembling or shaking; "`I--I'm going to make you a cup of tea', she explained shakily"
- in an insecurely shaky manner; "this theory is rather shakily supported by some obscure data"
Shaking
- verb - a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe"
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking; "He was shaken from his dreams"; "shake the salt out of the salt shaker"
- get rid of; "I couldn't shake the car that was following me"
- move back and forth or sideways; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet"
- move or cause to move back and forth; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking"
- move with or as if with a tremor; "his hands shook"
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state; "shake one's head"; "She shook her finger at the naughty students"; "The old enemies shook hands"; "Don't shake your fist at me!"
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively; "The old engine was juddering"
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the cou
Shakoes
- noun - tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions
Shakudo
- - An alloy of copper, invented by the Japanese, having a very dark blue color approaching black.
Shallon
- noun - small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries
Shallot
- noun - aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion
- small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning
- type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning
Shallow
- adjective - a stretch of shallow water
- become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
- lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
- lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"
- make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
- not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"
Shallus
- noun - sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains; introduced into United States from India