Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) 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. 2. (n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. 3. (v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye. 4. (v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks. 5. (n.) 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. 6. (n.) 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. 7. (n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like. 8. (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. 9. (v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence. 10. (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates. 11. (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter. 12. (n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog. 13. (n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair. 14. (a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

Multi-Version Concordance Shock (6 Occurrences) Acts 16:26 when suddenly there was such a violent shock of earthquake that the prison shook to its foundations. Instantly the doors all flew open, and the chains fell off from every prisoner. (WEY BBE) 2 Samuel 22:8 Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry. (BBE) Job 5:26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV) Job 30:14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack. (BBE) Psalms 18:7 Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry. (BBE) Ezekiel 26:9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers. (See RSV)