intransitive verb. To quiver, as from weakness; tremble.

intransitive verb. To speak in a quivering voice; utter a quivering sound.

intransitive verb. To produce a trill on an instrument or with the voice.

intransitive verb. To utter or sing in a trilling voice.

noun. A quivering sound.

noun. undefined

noun. A trill.

noun. An eighth note.

To have a tremulous motion; tremble; vibrate.

To sing or sound with the wavy tones of an untrained voice, or with a distinctly tremulous tone; hence, to sing, in general; also, to perform a shake or similar melodic embellishment with the voice or an instrument.

To sing in an artless manner or with tremulous tone.

noun. A quivering; a trembling.

noun. A tremulous or quivering sound or tone.

noun. A shake or similar embellishment, particularly in vocal music.

noun. An eighth-note (which see).

transitive verb. To utter with quavers.

intransitive verb. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

intransitive verb. 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.

noun. A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.

noun. An eighth note. See Eighth.

noun. a trembling shake.

noun. a trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.

noun. an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.

verb. to shake in a trembling manner.

verb. to use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.

noun. a tremulous sound

verb. give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency

verb. sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below

noun. a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note

"The English term for eighth-notes gets it right with "quaver", since these and other notes can do exactly that when played with alternating intensity, and even, suggests Quantz, duration."

breve  crotchet  longa  minim  quaver-rest  

demisemiquaver  hemidemisemiquaver  semiquaver  

quavered  quavering  

musical note  note  sing  sound  tone  

Laver  aver  baver  braver  caver  

Trilling  cackle  chuckle  droop  flicker  

Bebung  accidental  anthem  aphonia  artificial voice  

eighth  

quavered  quavering  quavers