Word Meanings - QUIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nimble; active. " A little quiver fellow." Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUIVER)

• Flicker
• Flutter
• quiver
• bicker
• falter
• waver
• glimmer
• shimmer
• scintillate
• Vibrate
• palpitate
• flicker
• flit
• Quake
• Tremble
• shake
• shudder
• vibrate
• quaver
• Rustle
• Quiver
• whisper
• susurration
• murmur
• sighing
• Shake
• Agitate
• weaken
• oscillate
• totter
• convulse
• loosen
• tremble
• jar
• shiver

Related words: (words related to QUIVER)

• QUAVER
  An eighth note. See Eighth. (more info) 1. A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
• QUAVERER
  One who quavers; a warbler.
• SIGH-BORN
  Sorrowful; mournful. "Sigh-born thoughts." De Quincey.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• VIBRATE
  1. To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate. 2. To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression
• SIGHTLY
  1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• SHAKE
  A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. (more info) 1. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other;
• GLIMMERING
  1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South. 2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
• QUAKER
  1. One who quakes. 2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was
• GLIMMER
  1. A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. Tennyson. 2. Mica. See Mica. Woodsward. Glimmer gowk, an owl. Tennyson.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• MURMUR
  1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• SIGHT-HOLE
  A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
• MURMUROUS
  Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
• QUAKERISH
  Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
• FLICKERMOUSE
  See FLITTERMOUSE
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
• MISTRUSTLESS
  Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.
• AFLICKER
  In a flickering state.
• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
• INSUSURRATION
  The act of whispering into something. Johnson.
• ICEQUAKE
  The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.