![]() synonyms: tremble, vibrate similar words: shake. Her chin quivered as the tears came down. Middle English quiveren perhaps from quiver nimble ( from Old English cwifer- gwei- in Indo-European roots)įrom Middle English cwiver, from Old English *cwiferįrom Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective. quiver definition: to shake with very small, quick movements. Quiver, as a noun, is a reference to this tremble, or it can be. Middle English from Anglo-Norman quiveir variant of Old French cuivre from Old Low Franconian cocar probably from Medieval Latin cucurum probably from Hunnish Mongolian kökürĪmerican Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition Quiver, as a verb, means to tremble or shake, and its often related to fear or trepidation. Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again.From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quiveir, from Old Dutch cocare (compare Dutch koker), from Hunnic *kukur (“flask, cask") (compare Uyghur (Taranči) kökür, Kazakh kökkör), from Mongolic *köky- (“to suckle") (compare Kalmyk кøкyp (kokür, “leather flask for kumis"), Middle Mongolian (køkygyr, “cowhide water- or wine-cask")). Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. A collection or store arsenal: a quiver of ready responses. In my ear, that is obviously an only commercial aspirational use of the word. I quiver a bit when hearing of the lax usage of the word 'yoga' these days, a yoga studio down the road from us here in Miami offers 'yoga booty ballet'. she’s afraid to live life at times she feels a feeling similar to one she had as a child but when it appears she pushes the plunger and it disappears. i want to stroke the nape of her soft downy neck, cover her eyes with my hand, feel her cheeks quiver beneath - i want to know her, but like one wounded she won’t let them close. I want to hold her to me, take away her pain, fear, make her believe someone gives a shit. You're fighting for skills all the time and you need as many arrows in your quiver as possible. We need every arrow in the quiver we can get, and private debt is one of the critical ones, there isn't a no-risk choice. ![]() Zelmane would have put to her helping hand, but she was taken with such a quivering, that she thought it more wisdom to lean herself to a tree and look on. ![]() The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze.Īlexander Pope. The dying gales that pant upon the trees, ![]() With what a spring his furious soul broke loose,Īnd left the limbs still quivering on the ground.Įurydice with quiv’ring voice he mourn’d,Īnd verdant alders form’d a quiv’ring shade. He quiver’d with his feet, and lay for dead. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind.įorward he flew, and pitching on his head, To quake to play with a tremulous motion. Her sounding quiver on her shoulder ty’d, or cover.ĭiana’s nymphs would be arrayed in white, their arms and shoulders naked, bows in their hands, and quivers by their sides. There was a little quiver fellow, and he would manage you his piece thus and he would about and about.Įtymology: this word seems to be corrupted from couvrir, Fr. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
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