Quiver

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Nimble; active; spry.
  • noun. The act or state of quivering; a tremulous motion; a tremor; a flutter; a shudder; a shiver.
  • To quake; tremble; shake tremulously; shudder; shiver.
  • To flutter or be agitated with a tremulous motion.
  • Synonyms Quake, etc. See shiver.
  • noun. A case for holding arrows or crossbow-bolts.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Nimble; active.
  • noun. The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
  • intransitive verb. To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
  • noun. A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
  • noun. A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
  • noun. The collective noun for cobras.
  • noun. Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.
  • noun. A multidigraph.
  • adjective. Nimble, active.
  • verb. To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
  • noun. case for holding arrows
  • noun. the act of vibrating
  • verb. shake with fast, tremulous movements
  • noun. a shaky motion
  • verb. move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
  • verb. move back and forth very rapidly