SHIVERING

shaky, shivering, trembling

(adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; “a quaking bog”; “the quaking child asked for more”; “quivering leaves of a poplar tree”; “with shaking knees”; “seemed shaky on her feet”; “sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier”; “trembling hands”

chill, shivering

(noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

shivering

present participle of shiver

Noun

shivering (plural shiverings)

The action of a person or thing that shivers; a trembling.

Anagrams

• shrieving

Source: Wiktionary

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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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