shiver

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To shake with or as if with cold; tremble. See Synonyms at shake.
2. v. To quiver or vibrate, as by the force of the wind.
3. v. Nautical To cause (a sail) to flutter by sailing too close to the wind.
4. n. An instance of shivering or trembling.
5. n. An attack of shivering. Used with the.
6. v. To break into fragments or splinters; shatter.
7. v. To cause to break suddenly into fragments or splinters.
8. n. A fragment or splinter.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Same as shive, 1.
2. n. A broken bit; a splinter; a sliver; one of many small pieces or fragments such as are produced by a sudden and violent shock or blow. Also shive.
3. n. 3. In mineralogy, a species of blue slate; schist; shale.
4. n. Nautical, a sheave; the wheel of a pulley.
5. n. A small wedge or key.
6. To break into many small fragments or splinters; shatter; dash to pieces at a blow.
7. Synonyms Shatter, etc. See dash.
8. To burst, fly, or fall at once into many small pieces of parts.
9. To shake; shudder; tremble; quiver; specifically, to shake with cold.
10. Synonyms Shiver, Quake. Shudder, Quiver. We shiver with cold or a sensation like that of cold; we quake with fear; we shudder with horror. To quiver is to have a slight tremulous or fluttering motion: as, her lip quivered; to quiver in every nerve.
11. Nautical, to cause to flutter or shake in the wind, as a sail by trimming the yards or shifting the helm so that the wind strikes on the edge of the sail.
12. n. A tremulous, quivering motion; a shaking-or trembling-fit, especially from cold.

Wiktionary

1. n. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
2. v. To break into splinters or fragments.
3. v. To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
4. n. The act or result of shivering.
5. n. medicine A bodily response to early hypothermia (Wikipedia).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
2. n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. A thin slice; a shive.
3. n. (Geol.) A variety of blue slate.
4. n. (Naut.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
5. n. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
6. n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. A spindle.
7. v. To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow.
8. v. To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
9. v. To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
10. v. (Naut.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
11. n. The act of shivering or trembling.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
2. n. a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
3. v. shake, as from cold
4. v. tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement