quaking

3 definitions found

quaking - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Quake \Quake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Quaking.] [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. Quagmire.]
     1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually
        repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to
        tremble. "Quaking for dread." --Chaucer.
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              She stood quaking like the partridge on which the
              hawk is ready to seize.               --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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     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.
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  Quaking \Quak"ing\,
     a. & n. from Quake, v.
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     Quaking aspen (Bot.), an American species of poplar
        (Populus tremuloides), the leaves of which tremble in
        the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen.
        See Aspen.
  
     Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water
        that it shakes when trodden upon.
  
     Quaking grass. (Bot.)
     (a) One of several grasses of the genus Briza, having
         slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which
         quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large
         quaking grass; Briza media and Briza minor are the
         smaller kinds.
     (b) Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria Canadensis).
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quaking - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "quaking":
     agitation, ague, aquiver, aspen, bumpiness, chattering,
     chills of fear, chorea, cold creeps, cold shivers, cold sweat,
     creeps, didder, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, fear and trembling,
     fidgetiness, fidgets, fits and starts, flutter, goose bumps,
     gooseflesh, heartquake, heaving, horripilation, inquietude,
     jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, jimjams, joltiness, nervousness,
     palpitation, palsied, palsy, panting, perturbation, pitapat,
     pitter-patter, quaver, quavering, quavery, quiver,
     quiver of terror, quivering, quivery, restlessness, shakes,
     shaking, shaky, shiver, shivering, shivers, shivery, shudder,
     shuddering, spasms, succussatory, succussion, succussive, sweat,
     thrill of fear, throb, throbbing, tremble, trembling, trembly,
     tremor, tremulant, tremulous, tremulousness, trepidation,
     trepidity, twitter, uneasiness, unrest, vibrating, vibration,
     wobbly