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Fright :: Fright (n.) To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.

Surfeit :: Surfboat (n.) A boat intended for use in heavy surf. It is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach..

Dynamite :: Dynamite (n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition..

Shock-head :: Shock-head (a.) Shock-headed.

Squasher :: Squash (n.) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies..

Stooked :: Stook (n.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves..

Brush :: Brush (n.) A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy..

Shock :: Shock (n.) 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 :: Shock (v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence..

Shock :: Shock (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

Brunt :: Brunt (v. t.) The force of a blow; shock; collision.

Shock-headed :: Shock-headed (a.) Having a thick and bushy head of hair.

Ghastly :: Ghastly (superl.) Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.

Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger..

Rug-headed :: Rug-headed (a.) Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.

Hideous :: Hideous (a.) Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks..

Shock :: Shock (v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye..

Intershock :: Intershock (v. t.) To shock mutually.

Preparation :: Preparation (n.) The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension..

Shocking :: Shocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoc.

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