Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tremor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tremor \Tre"mor\, n. [L., from tremere to tremble. See
{Tremble}, v.]
A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory
motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or
old.
He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints.
--Harvey.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tremor
n 1: an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) [syn:
{shudder}]
2: a small earthquake [syn: {earth tremor}, {microseism}]
3: shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or
stress or disease)
v : shake with seismic vibrations, as of planets; "The earth was
quaking" [syn: {quake}]
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