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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement. See Synonyms at shake.
  2. n. The act or motion of quivering.
  3. n. A portable case for holding arrows.
  4. n. A case full of arrows.
  5. n. A collection or store; arsenal: a quiver of ready responses.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Nimble; active; spry.
  2. To quake; tremble; shake tremulously; shudder; shiver.
  3. To flutter or be agitated with a tremulous motion.
  4. Synonyms Quake, etc. See shiver.
  5. n. The act or state of quivering; a tremulous motion; a tremor; a flutter; a shudder; a shiver.
  6. n. A case for holding arrows or crossbow-bolts. Quivers were formerly nearly as long as the arrows, so that only the feathers projected, these being covered by a piece of leather or cloth when not likely to be required. Medieval archers in war generally used the quiver on the march only, and in battle carried their arrows secured by a strap, usually with the addition of a small socket in which the points only were covered.

Wiktionary

  1. n. weaponry A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
  2. n. figuratively A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
  3. n. obsolete The collective noun for cobras.
  4. n. Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.
  5. n. mathematics A multidigraph.
  6. adj. archaic Nimble, active.
  7. v. intransitive To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Nimble; active.
  2. v. To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
  3. n. The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
  4. n. A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
  2. n. case for holding arrows
  3. n. the act of vibrating
  4. v. shake with fast, tremulous movements
  5. n. a shaky motion
  6. v. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
  7. v. move back and forth very rapidly

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English quiveren, perhaps from quiver, nimble (from Old English cwifer-).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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Arthurpod "...'Mud?' His leper's caution quivered. 'I need soap, not more dirt.'..."

    Lord Foul's Bane Jul 29, 2012

  • sillygoose A case for holding or carrying arrows, or the arrows carried in said case. May also refer to a collection of surfboards or skateboards.

    Finally, it is a term that a fundamentalist Christian sect uses to describe their movement to have as many babies as possible -- Full Quiver Theology, based on the reading of Psalm 127: 3-5: "Children are a heritage of the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. As arrows in a soldier's hand, so are the sons of the young. Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them." Feb 22, 2008

  • skipvia A group of cobras
    Nov 15, 2007

  • oroboros ...and don't forget that ever-racy color: vermillion. ;oP Sep 14, 2007

  • suunflowerss my favorite word from my trashy novel era..... "his manhood quivered at the sight of her virginal breast" Sep 14, 2007

  • brtom Then Crown'd again thir gold'n Harps they took,
    Harps ever tun'd, that glittering by thir side
    Like Quivers hung ...

    Milton, Paradise Lost III Dec 19, 2006

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