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▪ I. quiver, n.1|ˈkwɪvə(r)|
Forms: 4 quy-, qwyu- ere, 4–7 quiuer, (6 quy-), 5–6 qwyver, (5 -uer, -were), 5– quiver, (5 quy-); 5 whywer, 5–6 -ver. β. Sc. 6 quavyr, quauir, 6–7 quaver.
[a. AF. quiveir, OF. quivre, quevre (cu-), coivre, etc., app. a. the Teutonic word represented in Eng. by cocker n.1]
1. A case for holding arrows (sometimes also the bow).
αa1300E.E. Psalter x. 2 Þair bowe þai bent, Þair arwes in a quiuer sente. a1340Hampole Psalter x. 2 Þai redied þaire aruys in qwyuere. c1400Destr. Troy 2375 My bow þat was bigge, & my bright qwyuer. 1483Cath. Angl. 417/1 A Whywer for bowes, architesis. 1555Eden Decades 56 When they had emptied theyr quyuers. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia ii. 25 His arrowes..he wore in a Woolues skinne at his backe for his Quiver. 1740Somerville Hobbinol iii. 170 Fair Virgin Huntress, for the Chace array'd With painted Quiver, and unerring Bow. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. xx, A quiver on their shoulders lay. 1854Card. Wiseman Fabiola ii. xxiv. 284 A gaily-painted quiver, full of arrows.
β1513Douglas æneis viii. iii. 165 Ane courtly quavyr..Wyth arrowis mayd in Lycia. a1584Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 114 His quaver..Hang in ane siluer lace.
b. transf. and fig.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxvi. 15 Aȝen alle arewe [she] shal opene quyuere. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxxvi[i]. 5 Happie is the man, yt hath his quyuer full of them. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. i. vi, When the quiver of your arguments..is quite empty, your course is to betake ye to your other quiver of slander. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 289 The taper'd Dart, Design'd to make its Quiver in my Heart. 1839Bailey Festus ii. (1852) 14 Bow of my life, thou yet art full of spring! My quiver still hath many purposes. 1864Trollope Small House at Allington ix, Boyce being a man who had his quiver full of them [children].
c. The contents of a quiver; a quiverful.
1599Shakes. Much Ado i. i. 274 Nay, if Cupid haue not spent all his Quiuer in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly. 1623Webster Duchess Malfi v. ii, Your bright eyes carry a quiver of darts in them sharper than sunbeams.
2. attrib. and Comb., as quiver-bearing adj.; † quiver-case = sense 1; quiver-tree, the South African Aloe dichotoma (Treas. Bot. 1866).
c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 47 Sic treitment is a trane To cleive thair quaver caice. 1798Landor Gebir vii. 45 Woody Nebrissa's quiver-bearing crew.
▪ II. quiver, n.2|ˈkwɪvə(r)|
[f. quiver v.1]
1. An act of quivering; a tremble; ellipt. a trembling of the voice. † Also = quaver n. 1.
1715Pennecuik Poems 73 Cupid..Tun'd all his Crotchets, Quiuers, Semibrieues. 1786F. Burney Lett. 16 Oct., I was all in a quiver, but gathered courage [etc.]. 1853C. Brontë Villette xiv, Heaven was..grand with the quiver of its living fires. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 204 Thrasymachus, I said, with a quiver, have mercy on us.
2. Comb. quiver-grass = quaking-grass.
1860C. M. Yonge Hopes & Fears II. vi. 105 Blue harebells and pale bents of quiver-grass edged the path. 1869― Let. 6 Aug. in C. Coleridge C. M. Yonge (1903) lx. 242 The Norman name for quiver-grass is Langue de femme.
▪ III. quiver, a. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈkwɪvə(r)|
Forms: 1 cwifer, 3 cwiuer, couer, 5 qwy-, 5–6 quyuer, (6 que-), 5–7 quiuer, 6, 9 quiver.
[OE. *cwifer, prob. onomatopœic: cf. quiver v.2]
Active, nimble; quick, rapid.
c960[implied in quiverly]. a1225Ancr. R. 140 Þet fleshs is her et home..ant for þui hit is cwointe & cwiuer [v.r. couer]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xv. (1495) 774 Some wylde oxen ben..moost qwyuer and swyfte. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 281 He or she is a quyuer gester. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke ii. 34 Of body feble and impotent, but of soule quiuer and lustie. 1567Turberv. Epit. etc. 46 b, Thy quick and quiuer wings. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 301 A little quiuer fellow. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 302 We..use the word in a sense of briskness, smartness—‘He's a quiver little fellow.’
▪ IV. quiver, v.1|ˈkwɪvə(r)|
[f. quiver n.1]
trans. To put into or as into a quiver. (Chiefly in pa. pple.; cf. quivered 2.)
a1643Earl of Cumberland Ps. in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 112 Thy galling shafts lye quiuered in my bones. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 310 Use Spears, your Arrows quiver, case your Bows. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 137 His thousand arrows lie Quivered around.
▪ V. quiver, v.2|ˈkwɪvə(r)|
Forms: 5 quyuer, 6 quyver, 6–7 quiuer, 4– quiver.
[Prob. onomatopœic: cf. quiver a. and the vbs. quave, quaver.
The existence of an obs. Du. kuyveren, given by Kilian as meaning ‘to quiver’, is not otherwise authenticated.]
1. intr. To shake, tremble, or vibrate, with a slight but rapid agitation. (Said of persons, esp. under the influence of some emotion, of things, light, etc.)
1490Caxton Eneydos xxvii. 103 Dido quyuered & shoke of grete rage. 1530Palsgr. 677/2 The poore boye quivereth for colde. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 73 Scant had I thus spoken, when seats al quiuered about vs. 1620Middleton Chaste Maid i. i. 118 A brave court-spirit makes our virgins quiver. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 55 Do you not perceive the gold to be in a dismal fear, to curl and quiver at the first reading of these words. 1713Addison Cato iii. ii, O'er the dying lamp th' unsteady flame Hangs quivering. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 205 ⁋1 The gales quivered among the branches. 1798Wordsw. Peter Bell ii. i, Upon the stream the moonbeams quiver. 1853Maurice Proph. & Kings xxi. 376 This..made his lips quiver and his hands tremble. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 243 His hand trembled and his flesh quivered.
fig.1840Alison Europe (1849–53) VIII. l. §44. 267 The contest was quivering in the balance. 1861Thackeray Four Georges ii. (1862) 86 Scorn and hate quivering in his smile. 1874S. Cox Pilgr. Ps. vii. 133 The darkness..quivers on this night with a nameless horror.
2. trans. To cause to vibrate or tremble.
1599Minsheu Span. Dict., Blandéar, to brandish or quiuer a sword. 1789J. White Earl Strongbow II. 146 He had a way of quivering his head and turning up his nose. 1804Grahame Sabbath 288 The lark..quivers the wing With more than wonted joy. 1898R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 53 He then began to quiver his drooping wings.
b. To produce in or by quivering. rare—1.
1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. iv. 102 The mad air quivered Unutterable music.
Hence quiveˈrante (after andante), quiveˈration (nonce-wds.). Also ˈquiverer; ˈquiverish a.; ˈquivery a.
1581Mulcaster Positions xvii. (1887) 77 Wrastling..is daungerous to be delt with in agues, as to vehement and conspiring with the quiuerer. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 71 With a quiuerish horror. 1775Sheridan Rivals ii. i, Such a mistress of flat and sharp, squallante, rumblante, and quiverante! 1812J. Adams Wks. (1856) X. 16 My health is..good, excepting a quiveration of the hands... Excuse the word quiveration, which..I borrowed..from an Irish boy. 1877Daily News 11 June 5/5 Like a dreamland that trembles in the quivery air. 1889‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxvi. 339 The headlines sent a quivery little cold wave through me. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Tragedy I. i. xv. 116 She..hinted of a mood which made Clyde a little quivery and erratic. 1927Chambers's Jrnl. May 315/1 You and he have made my face quite quivery with excitement. 1975L. Gillen Return to Deepwater viii. 152 ‘If you kiss me I'll—I'll scream for help,’ she said in a small and strangely quivery voice. |