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Word Meanings - QUIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • 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.
  • 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
  • SHIVER-SPAR
    A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
  • 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
  • QUAKERLIKE
    Like a Quaker.
  • 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.
  • 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.

 

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