Word Meanings - SHIVERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Tremulous; shivering. Mallet. 2. Easily broken; brittle; shattery.

Related words: (words related to SHIVERY)

• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• BRITTLE STAR
  Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.
• BROKEN-WINDED
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• SHATTERY
  Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.
• BROKEN-BACKED
  Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. (more info) 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
• BROKEN-BELLIED
  Having a ruptured belly.
• SHIVERINGLY
  In a shivering manner.
• BROKENNESS
  1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay. 2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.
• BROKENLY
  In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.
• MALLET
  A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.
• BROKEN-HEARTED
  Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe- begone; forlorn.
• EASILY
  1. With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen. 2. Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily. Sir W. Temple. 3. Readily;
• SHIVERY
  1. Tremulous; shivering. Mallet. 2. Easily broken; brittle; shattery.
• BRITTLE
  Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite. (more info) breótan to break; akin to Icel. brytja, Sw. bryta, Dan. bryde.
• BRITTLENESS
  Aptness to break; fragility.
• TREMULOUS
  1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar. 2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling. The tender, tremulous Christian. Dr. H. More. -- Trem"u*lous*ly,
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• UNEASILY
  In an uneasy manner.
• UNBROKEN
  Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.
• GREASILY
  , adv. 1. In a greasy manner. 2. In a gross or indelicate manner. You talk greasily; your lips grow foul. Shak.