Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To quiver; shake.
  • noun A shaking; trembling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See quaver.
  • intransitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To quaver.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive, obsolete To quiver or tremble.
  • noun A shaking; trembling.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English quaven, cwavien ("to tremble"). More at quaver.

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