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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