Word Meanings - PALPITANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. Carlyle.

Related words: (words related to PALPITANT)

• 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; --
• PALPITATION
  A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.
• TREMBLER
  One who trembles.
• PALPITATE
  To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.