Quiver
['kwɪvə] or ['kwɪvɚ]
Definition
(noun.) case for holding arrows.
(verb.) shake with fast, tremulous movements; 'His nostrils palpitated'.
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Definition
(a.) Nimble; active.
(v. i.) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
(n.) The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
(n.) A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.
Editor: Noreen
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Quake, shake, quaver, bicker, be tremulous.[2]. Tremble, shudder, shiver.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Shake, shiver, vibrate, tremble, quake,[See PLEASURE]
Edited by Dinah
Definition
v.i. to shake with slight and tremulous motion: to tremble: to shiver.—ns. Quiv′er Quiv′ering a tremulous motion shiver.—adv. Quiv′eringly with quivering.—adj. Quiv′erish tremulous.
n. a case for arrows.—adj. Quiv′ered furnished with a quiver: sheathed as in a quiver.
adj. (Shak.) nimble active.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.
Checker: Spenser
Examples
- Heaven was cloudless, and grand with the quiver of its living fires. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Tarzan fished the little black diary from the bottom of his quiver, and handed it to his companion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- His quiver is not seen; if his arrows penetrate, their wound is like a thrill of new life. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I don't know what you DO mean, said Mrs. Peniston, with a frightened quiver in her small fretful voice. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- At his back was a quiver of arrows slung from a leathern shoulder belt, another piece of loot from some vanquished black. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The mouth seemed formed less to speak than to quiver, less to quiver than to kiss. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The quiver was not emptied, nor the bow unstrung. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She's not dead: her eye-lids are quivering, and here's wet tears a-coming down her cheeks. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Don't say so, Vincy, said the mother, with a quivering lip, if you don't want him to be taken from me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His tutor placed him in a chair; his lips were quivering, his eyes brimming. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Say that it does so,' returned Bradley with quivering lips; 'is there no cause for it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Not,' returned Bella, with quivering lips; 'not Harmon? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was quivering with silent laughter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The broad brown face of it heaved slowly, and then dimpled and quivered all over. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Jingle's face gradually relaxed; and something distantly resembling a wink quivered for an instant in his left eye. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Indignation quivered on her lip; but it was quelled by the secret voice which warned her that she must not quarrel with him. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Her eyes were round and wondering, bewildered, her mouth quivered slightly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But, sir, when I quivered my eyes again, and saw that it wasn't there, then it all flooded upon me with a fright, and I jumped up. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Her arms quivered and were strong, immeasurably and irresistibly strong. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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