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.
Shock, v. i. 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, n. [Cf. Shag.] 1. (Zoöl.) 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, a. Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
His red shock peruke . . . was laid aside.
Sir W. Scott.
Shock"dog` (?), n. (Zoöl.) See 7th Shock, 1.
Shock"-head` (?), a. Shock- headed. Tennyson.
Shock"-head`ed, a. Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
Shock"ing, a. Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially,
causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or
disgusting.
The grossest and most shocking villainies.
Secker.
-- Shock"ing*ly, adv. -- Shock"ing*ness, n.
Shod (?), imp. & p. p. f Shoe.
Shod"dy (?), n. [Perhaps fr. Shed, v. t.; as meaning originally, waste
stuff shedor thrown off.] 1. A fibrous material obtained by "deviling,"
or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags,
druggets, etc. See Mungo.
2. A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount
of, shoddy.
The great quantity of shoddy goods furnished as army supplies in the
late Civil War in the United States gave wide currency to the word, and
it came to be applied to persons who pretend to a higher position in
society than that to which their breeding or worth entitles them.
Shod"dy, a. Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as,
shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham;
pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.
Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride.
Compton Reade.
Shod"dy*ism (?), n. The quality or state of being shoddy. [Colloq.] See
the Note under Shoddy, n.
Shode (?), n. [AS. scde, fr. sceádan. See Shed, v. t.] 1. The parting
of the hair on the head. [Obs.]
Full straight and even lay his jolly shode.
Chaucer.