Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quake"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quake \Quake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quaked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Quaking}.] [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. {Quagmire}.]
1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually
repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to
tremble. ``Quaking for dread.'' --Chaucer.
She stood quaking like the partridge on which the
hawk is ready to seize. --Sir P.
Sidney.
2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid,
as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind;
as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. `` Over quaking
bogs.'' --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quake \Quake\, v. t. [Cf. AS. cweccan to move, shake. See
{Quake}, v. t.]
To cause to quake. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quake \Quake\, n.
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder;
a quivering.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
quake
n : shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting
from underground movement along a fault plane of from
volcanic activity [syn: {earthquake}, {temblor}, {seism}]
v 1: shake with fast, tremulous movements" [syn: {quiver}]
2: shake with seismic vibrations, as of planets; "The earth was
quaking" [syn: {tremor}]
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