Word Meanings - OVERSHAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.

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• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• DISPERSED
  Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony , harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• DRIVEWAY
  A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
• 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.
• SHAKE
  obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.
• DISPERSE
  1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of
• DRIVEBOLT
  A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
• 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
• DRIVEN
  of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.
• DISPERSER
  One that disperses.
• SHAKERISM
  Doctrines of the Shakers.
• SHAKEFORK
  A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
• DRIVEPIPE
  A pipe for forcing into the earth.
• DISPERSENESS
  Dispersedness.
• 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. ,
• FORDRIVE
  To drive about; to drive here and there. Rom. of R.
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.
• FULL-DRIVE
  With full speed.
• HOME-DRIVEN
  Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.
• INDISPERSED
  Not dispersed.
• CONTINENTAL DRIVE
  A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.