quivering

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

QUIV'ERING, participle present tense Trembling, as with cold or fear; moving with a tremulous agitation. QUIV'ERING, noun The act of shaking or trembling; agitation; as, to be seized with a quivering
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