Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quiver"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Quiver
the sheath for arrows. The Hebrew word (aspah) thus commonly
rendered is found in Job 39:23; Ps. 127:5; Isa. 22:6; 49:2; Jer.
5:16; Lam. 3:13. In Gen. 27:3 this word is the rendering of the
Hebrew _teli_, which is supposed rather to mean a suspended
weapon, literally "that which hangs from one", i.e., is
suspended from the shoulder or girdle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quiver \Quiv"er\, a. [Akin to AS. cwiferlice anxiously; cf. OD.
kuiven, kuiveren. Cf. {Quaver}.]
Nimble; active. [Obs.] `` A little quiver fellow.'' --Shak.
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)
Quiver \Quiv"er\, n.
The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quiver \Quiv"er\, n. [OF. cuivre, cuevre, coivre, LL. cucurum,
fr. OHG. chohh[=a]ri quiver, receptacle, G. k["o]cher quiver;
akin to AS. color, cocur, cocer, D. koker. Cf. {Cocker} a
high shoe.]
A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.
Reside him hung his bow And quiver, with three-bolted
thunder stored. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
quiver
n 1: an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of
surprise shot through him" [syn: {frisson}, {shiver}, {chill},
{shudder}, {thrill}, {tingle}]
2: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his
pipe" [syn: {shaking}, {shakiness}, {trembling}, {quivering},
{vibration}, {palpitation}]
3: case for holding arrows
4: the act of vibrating [syn: {vibration}, {quivering}]
v 1: shake with fast, tremulous movements" [syn: {quake}]
2: move back and forth very rapidly, as of a candle [syn: {flicker},
{waver}, {flitter}, {flutter}]
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