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▪ I. † quave, n. Obs.
[f. next.]
A shake, tremble.
1382, etc. [see earth-quave]. c1440Promp. Parv. 419/2 Quaue, of a myre (K., P. quaue, as of a myre), labina. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 196 A quave of the earth swallowed a middle part of the city Misia.
▪ II. † quave, v. Obs.
Also 3 cwauien, 4, 6 quaue, 5 qvavyn, 6 queaue.
[Early ME. cwavien, prob. repr. an OE. *cwafian, of parallel formation to cwacian quake; for the stem cf. quiver v.]
1. intr. To quake, shake, tremble.
a1225St. Marher. 19 Al þe eorðe..bigon to cwakien [B. ant to cwauien]. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 61 The wal wagged and clef, and al the worlde quaued. 1382Wyclif 1 Sam. xxviii. 5 And Saul..dradde, and his herte quauyde ful myche. c1440Promp. Parv. 419/2 Qvavyn, as myre, tremo. 1481Caxton Myrr. II. c. 22 Now vnderstande ye..how the erthe quaueth and shaketh. 1509Parl. Devylles lvi, The erthe quaued..Valeys and stones brest asonder. 1687Miege Grt. Fr. Dict. ii, To Quave. As to quave with fat. [1825see quaving ppl. a.]
2. intr. To beat, palpitate; to throb with life.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 37 Þe place at Schaftesbury þere his longes ȝit quaveþ al fresche and sound. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 223 Is he aliue, Is he as I left him queauing and quick.
Hence † ˈquaving vbl. n. and ppl. a.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 324, I schal..quelle alle þat is quik with quauende flodez. 1382Wyclif 1 Kings xix. 11 After the wynde, quauynge; not in the quauyng the Lord. 1533Elyot Cast. Helth i. ii, That body is called fleumatike, wherein water hath pre-eminence, and is perceiued by these signes: fatnesse, quaving, and soft. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 530 So quaving soft and moist the Bases were. 1825Britton Beauties Wilts III. 8 In the valley..are some quagmires, called by the inhabitants quaving-gogs. |