Word Meanings - QUAVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

be soft, of fat substances, quabbe a fat lump of flesh, a dewlap, D. 1. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. Sir I. Newton. 2. Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill

Additional info about word: QUAVER

be soft, of fat substances, quabbe a fat lump of flesh, a dewlap, D. 1. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. Sir I. Newton. 2. Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUAVER)

• Quake
• Tremble
• shake
• shudder
• vibrate
• quiver
• quaver

Related words: (words related to QUAVER)

• QUAVERER
  One who quavers; a warbler.
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• 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
• VIBRATE
  brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, 1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff. 2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds. 3. To affect with
• 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; --
• QUAKERISH
  Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
• QUAKERESS
  A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• QUAVER
  be soft, of fat substances, quabbe a fat lump of flesh, a dewlap, D. 1. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. Sir I. Newton. 2. Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill
• SHUDDER
  To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. "With shuddering horror pale." Milton. The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith. (more info) shake, OS. skuddian, G. schaudern to shudder, schütteln
• 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.
• SHAKEN
  1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. 2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. 3. Impaired, as by a shock.
• QUAKERY
  Quakerism. Hallywell.
• SHAKE
  obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.
• SHAKER
  A variety of pigeon. P. J. Selby. (more info) 1. A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. 2. One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms
• TREMBLER
  One who trembles.
• QUIVER
  Nimble; active. " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
• QUAKERISM
  The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.
• SHUDDERINGLY
  In a shuddering manner.
• SHAKERISM
  Doctrines of the Shakers.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• ICEQUAKE
  The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.
• COWQUAKE
  A genus of plants ; quaking grass.
• SEAQUAKE
  A quaking of the sea.