Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Quivered"

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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Quivered \Quiv"ered\, a.
1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. ``Like a quivered
nymph with arrows keen.'' --Milton.

2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. ``Whose quills stand quivered at
his ear.'' --Pope.


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