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English Dictionary: quivered by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quiver \Quiv"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quivered}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Quivering}.] [Cf. {Quaver}.]
      To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to
      tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
  
               The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. --Shak.
  
               And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
                                                                              --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quivered \Quiv"ered\, a.
      1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. [bd]Like a quivered
            nymph with arrows keen.[b8] --Milton.
  
      2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. [bd]Whose quills stand quivered
            at his ear.[b8] --Pope.
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