Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Shock

Shock (shok) , noun

[Old English schokke; compare OD schocke, German schock a heap, quantity, threescore, Middle High German schoc, Swedish skok, and also German hocke a heap of hay, Lithuanian kugis.]

1.
A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
And cause it on shocks to be by and by set. — Tusser
Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks. — Thomson
2.
(Commerce) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

Shock , transitive verb

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

Shock , intransitive verb

To be occupied with making shocks.
Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn, Bind fast, shock apace. — Tusser

Shock , noun

[Compare Dutch schok a bounce, jolt, or leap, Old High German scoc a swing, Middle High German schoc, Icelandic skykkjun tremuously, French choc a shock, collision, a dashing or striking against, Sp. choque, Italian ciocco a log. r161. Compare Shock to shake.]

1.
A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
These strong, unshaken mounds resist the shocks Of tides and seas tempestuous. — Blackmore
He stood the shock of a whole host of foes. — Addison
2.
A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
A shock of pleasure. — Talfourd
3.
(Medicine) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a part of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
4.
(Electricity) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.

Shock , transitive verb

[Old English schokken; compare Dutch schokken, French choquer, Sp. chocar. r161. Compare Chuck to strike, Jog, Shake, Shock a striking, Shog, n. & v.]

1.
To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. — Shakespeare
I shall never forget the force with which he shocked De Vipont. — Sir W. Scott
2.
To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
Advise him not to shock a father's will. — Dryden
3.
(Physiology) To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system.

Shock , intransitive verb

To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together. — De Quincey

Shock , noun

[Compare Shag.]

1.
(Zoology) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
2.
A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

Shock , adjective

Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
His red shock peruke... was laid aside. — Sir W. Scott