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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tremor \Tre"mor\, n. [L., from tremere to tremble. See
{Tremble}, v.]
A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory
motion; as the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or
old
He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints.
--Harvey.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tremor
n 1: an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) [syn:
{shudder}]
2: a small earthquake [syn: {earth tremor}, {microseism}]
3: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his
pipe" [syn: {shaking}, {shakiness}, {trembling}, {quiver},
{quivering}, {vibration}, {palpitation}]
v : shake with seismic vibrations, as of planets; "The earth was
quaking" [syn: {quake}]
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