QUAKING

Noun

quaking (plural quakings)

The action of the verb to quake.

Adjective

quaking

That shakes or shivers.

Verb

quaking

present participle of quake

Source: Wiktionary

Quak"ing,

Definition: a. & n. from Quake, v. Quaking aspen (Bot.), an American species of poplar (Populus tremuloides), the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen.

– Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon.

– Quaking grass. (Bot.) (a) One of several grasses of the genus Briza, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large quaking grass; B. media and B. minor are the smaller kinds. (b) Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria Canadensis).

QUAKE

Quake, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Quaking.] Etym: [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. Quagmire.]

1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. Quaking for dread." Chaucer. She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. Sir P. Sidney.

2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. " Over quaking bogs." Macaulay.

Quake, v. t. Etym: [Cf. AS. cweccan to move, shake. See Quake, v. t.]

Definition: To cause to quake. [Obs.] Shak.

Quake, n.

Definition: A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition