Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trembling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tremble \Trem"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trembled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Trembling}.] [F. trembler, fr. L. tremulus trembling,
tremulous, fr. tremere to shake, tremble; akin to Gr. ?,
Lith. trimti. Cf. {Tremulous}, {Tremor}.]
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; -- said of a thing.
The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble.
--Milton.
3. To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the
voice trembles.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Trembling \Trem"bling\, a.
Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- {Trem"bling*ly}, adv.
{Trembling poplar} (Bot.), the aspen.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
trembling
adj : vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or
cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a
quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more";
"quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking
knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light
from the shivering crystals of the chandelier";
"trembling hands" [syn: {quaking}, {quivering}, {shaking},
{shaky}, {shivering}]
n : a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his
pipe" [syn: {shaking}, {shakiness}, {quiver}, {quivering},
{vibration}, {palpitation}]
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