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quivering |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quiver \Quiv"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quivered}; p. pr & vb n. {Quivering}.] [Cf. {Quaver}.] To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. --Shak. And left the limbs still quivering on the ground. --Addison. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: quivering adj : vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands" [syn: {quaking}, {shaking}, {shaky}, {shivering}, {trembling}] n 1: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: {shaking}, {shakiness}, {tremor}, {trembling}, {quiver}, {vibration}, {palpitation}] 2: the act of vibrating [syn: {vibration}, {quiver}]
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