Word Meanings - BRANDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To shake; to totter.
Related words: (words related to BRANDLE)
- SHAKE
obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer. - TOTTER
1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, - SHAKESPEAREAN
Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his - SHAKEN
1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. 2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. 3. Impaired, as by a shock. - TOTTERY
Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson. - TOTTERINGLY
In a tottering manner. - SHAKER
A variety of pigeon. P. J. Selby. (more info) 1. A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. 2. One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms - SHAKERISM
Doctrines of the Shakers. - SHAKEFORK
A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork. - TOTTERER
One who totters. - SHAKEDOWN
A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. Sir W. Scott. - SHAKERESS
A female Shaker. - WIND-SHAKEN
Shaken by the wind; specif. , - TITTER-TOTTER
See TEETER - OVERSHAKE
To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer. - TETTER-TOTTER
A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter- totter, and titter-cum-totter. - HEADSHAKE
A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. Shak. - CUP SHAKE
A shake or fissure between the annual rings of a tree, found oftenest near the roots. - NERVE-SHAKEN
Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked. - UNSHAKED
Unshaken. Shak.