Word Meanings - FLESHQUAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. B. Jonson.

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• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• FLESHHOOD
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
• QUAKER
  1. One who quakes. 2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was
• TREMBLING
  Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- Trem"bling*ly, adv. Trembling poplar , the aspen.
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• FLESHINESS
  The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.
• QUAKERISH
  Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
• QUAKY
  Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.
• QUAKERESS
  A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
• QUAKING
  a. & n. from Quake, v. Quaking aspen , an American species of poplar , the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen. -- Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water
• QUIVERED
  1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
• FLESHER
  1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
• QUAKERY
  Quakerism. Hallywell.
• FLESHLY
  1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton.
• TREMBLER
  One who trembles.
• FLESHLESS
  Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.
• QUIVER
  Nimble; active. " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
• QUAKERISM
  The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.
• FLESHLING
  A person devoted to fleshly things. Spenser.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• ICEQUAKE
  The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.
• COWQUAKE
  A genus of plants ; quaking grass.
• ENFLESH
  To clothe with flesh. Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.
• SEAQUAKE
  A quaking of the sea.