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Quake
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. Quaking for dread." Chaucer. She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. Sir P. Sidney.
2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. " Over quaking bogs." Macaulay.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To cause to quake. [Obs.] Shak.