SHIVERED

Verb

shivered

simple past tense and past participle of shiver

Anagrams

• shrieved

Source: Wiktionary


SHIVER

Shiv"er, n. Etym: [OE. schivere, fr. shive; cf. G. schifer a splinter, slate, OHG. scivere a splinter, Dan. & Sw. skifer a slate. See Shive, and cf. Skever.]

1. One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. "All to shivers dashed." Milton.

2. A thin slice; a shive. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "A shiver of their own loaf." Fuller. Of your soft bread, not but a shiver. Chaucer.

3. (Geol.)

Definition: A variety of blue slate.

4. (Naut.)

Definition: A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.

5. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.

6. A spindle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Shiv"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shivered; p. pr. & vb. n. Shivering.] Etym: [OE. schiveren, scheveren; cf. OD. scheveren. See Shiver a fragment.]

Definition: To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet. All the ground With shivered armor strown. Milton.

Shiv"er, v. i.

Definition: To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered. There shiver shafts upon shields thick. Chaucer The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. Woodward.

Shiv"er, v. i. Etym: [OE. chiveren, cheveren; of uncertain origin. This word seems to have been confused with shiver to shatter.]

Definition: To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear. Prometheus is laid On icy Caucasus to shiver. Swift. The man that shivered on the brink of sin, Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in. Creech.

Shiv"er, v. t. (Naut.)

Definition: To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.

Shiv"er, n.

Definition: The act of shivering or trembling.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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