quiver

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The fall hunt would soon be on and his quiver was all but empty.

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  1. intransitive verb To shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement. See Synonyms at shake.
  2. noun The act or motion of quivering.
  3. noun A portable case for holding arrows.

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  • He had but started when he felt the man's whole body quiver, and he flopped himself over on his back, saying as he did so, "I'm done for." —  Bamboo Tales
  • She saw His lips quiver, and motion'd the Duke to withdraw And leave them a moment together He eyed Them both with a wistful regard; turn'd and sigh'd And lifted the tent-door, and pass'd from the tent XXXV Like a furnace, the fervid, intense occident From its hot seething levels a great glare struck up On the sick metal sky. —  Lucile
  • Go and tell Paton so, and I'm sure he'll forgive you A slight quiver was all that showed that Walter heard. —  St. Winifred's, or The World of School
  • I do not want you to destroy yourself With that the soldier's chin began to quiver, and the tears trickled down his cheeks, and he said: 'Captain, you are the first man to speak a kind word to me in two years, and for your sake I will do it Give me your hand on that, my brave fellow,' said the captain. —  Chatterbox, 1906
  • "And make it quiver--make it cry, father! —  Janice Day at Poketown
 

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tremor ·  twitch ·  flicker ·  tingle ·  flutter ·  gasp ·  spasm ·  twinge ·  throb ·  jolt ·  surge ·  ripple

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quiver:   quivers ·  quivered ·  quivering
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English quiveren, perhaps from quiver, nimble (from Old English cwifer-; see gwei- in Indo-European roots).
  2. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman quiveir, variant of Old French cuivre, from Old Low Franconian cocar, probably from Medieval Latin cucurum, probably from Hunnish; akin to Mongolian kökür.

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  1. Also dial. quever; from Middle English *quiver, quever, cwiver, from Anglo-Saxon *cwifer, in comp. cwiferlīce, eagerly; cf. quiver, v.
  2. Cf. Middle Dutch kuyveren, tremble, quiver, freq. form, associated with kuyven, tremble, quiver, and with the English adjective quiver: see quiver, a. Cf. quaver.
  3. from quiver, v.
  4. from Middle English quiver, quyver, quywere, quequer, from Old French quivre, cuivre, quevre, cuevre, coivre, couvre (Middle Latin cucurum = Middle Greek κούκουρον), from Old High German chohhar, chochar, chohhāri, Middle High German kocher, kochære, also koger, keger, German köcher, also Middle High German koger, keger = Low German koker, kaker = Dutch koker = Old Saxon cocar = OFries. koker = Anglo-Saxon cocur, cocer, Middle English koker = Swedish koger = Danish kogger, a quiver.
 

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