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quiver
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quiver \Quiv"er\ (kw[i^]v"[~e]r), a. [Akin to AS. cwiferlice
anxiously; cf. OD. kuiven, kuiveren. Cf. Quaver.]
Nimble; active. [Obs.] `` A little quiver fellow.''
--Shak.
Quiver \Quiv"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quivered (kw[i^]v"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Quivering.] [Cf. Quaver.] To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind.
--Shak.
And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
--Addison.
Quiver \Quiv"er\, n. The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
Quiver \Quiv"er\, n. [OF. cuivre, cuevre, coivre, LL. cucurum, fr. OHG. chohh[=a]ri quiver, receptacle, G. k["o]cher quiver; akin to AS. cocor, cocur, cocer, D. koker. Cf. Cocker a high shoe.] A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.
Beside him hung his bow
And quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"case for holding arrows," early 14c., from Anglo-French quiveir, Old French quivre, cuivre, probably of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *kukur "container" (cognates: Old High German kohhari, German Köcher, Old Saxon kokar, Old Frisian koker, Old English cocur "quiver"); "said to be from the language of the Huns" [Barnhart]. Related: Quiverful.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context weaponry English) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun. 2 (context figuratively English) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons. 3 (context obsolete English) (non-gloss definition The collective noun for cobra cobras.) 4 Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion. 5 (context mathematics English) A multidigraph. Etymology 2
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(context archaic English) nimble, active. Etymology 3
v
(context intransitive English) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
WordNet
n. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver, chill, shudder, thrill, tingle]
a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: shaking, shakiness, trembling, quivering, vibration, palpitation]
case for holding arrows
v. shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated" [syn: quake, palpitate]
move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered" [syn: flicker, waver, flitter, flutter]
move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn: pulsate, beat]
Wikipedia
A quiver is a container for holding arrows, bolts, or darts. It can be carried on an archer's body, the bow, or the ground, depending on the type of shooting and the archer's personal preference. Quivers were traditionally made of leather, wood, furs, and other natural materials, but are now often made of metal or plastic.
Quiver is the debut album by Monk, released in 1997. It was Ric Hordinski's first release after leaving Over the Rhine in 1996.
"Quiver" is a ten-issue Green Arrow story arc written by Kevin Smith with art by Phil Hester. Published by DC Comics, the arc appeared in Green Arrow (vol. 3) #1-#10.
In mathematics, a quiver is a directed graph where loops and multiple arrows between two vertices are allowed, i.e. a multidigraph. They are commonly used in representation theory: a representation V of a quiver assigns a vector space V(x) to each vertex x of the quiver and a linear map V(a) to each arrow a.
In category theory, a quiver can be understood to be an underlying structure of a category, but without identity morphisms and composition. That is, there is a forgetful functor from Cat to Quiv. Its left adjoint is a free functor which, from a quiver, makes the corresponding free category.
Quiver is a 3D first-person shooter released in March 1997. It was developed by ADvertainment Software and published by ESD games. (Both companies seem to have disappeared; the links provided in the game's manual are broken.) The game was designed for MS-DOS, and it runs in up to 800×600 resolution.
Quiver was primarily designed and created by Mike Taylor. The music in Quiver was composed by David B. Schultz (also composed for Nitemare 3D).
It is similar to Doom, with some humor thrown in. The enemies are much less threatening, and there is less blood and gore. The story is simple: aliens have stolen some orbs that allow them to transport to the past, and your mission is to infiltrate their bases and recover the orbs.
A quiver is a container for archery ammunition.
Quiver may also refer to:
- Quiver (mathematics), a type of graph
- Quiver diagram, a graph in physics
- Quiver tree, a South African aloe species
- Quiver (video game), a 1997 first-person shooter video game
- Quiver (band), a British 1970s rock band
- Quiver (comics), a Green Arrow story arc
- Quiverfull, a movement eschews all forms of contraception, including natural family planning and sterilization
- A group of cobras
- Vector field, a plot with arrows that indicate the direction and magnitude
- Quiver, the code-name for the computer game Half-Life during early development
- Quiver (KTU album), 2009
- Quiver (Monk album), 1997
- Quiver, a 1998 album by Wild Strawberries
- Quiver Creek, a stream in Illinois
- Quiver, an imprint of the Quarto Group focusing on sex
Quiver is the second studio album of the band KTU. Songs from this album first time were performed on festival "Creating the World" in Kazan, Russia.
Usage examples of "quiver".
Mama Therese marched ahead with forbidding frown and quivering chins, with the militant carriage of misprized and affronted rectitude.
While these unfinished exclamations were actually passing my lips I chanced to cross that infernal mat, and it is no more startling than true, but at my word a quiver of expectation ran through that gaunt web--a rustle of anticipation filled its ancient fabric, and one frayed corner surged up, and as I passed off its surface in my stride, the sentence still unfinished on my lips, wrapped itself about my left leg with extraordinary swiftness and so effectively that I nearly fell into the arms of my landlady, who opened the door at the moment and came in with a tray and the steak and tomatoes mentioned more than once already.
Knife, one of the most strident laymen in that somewhat eccentric and quivering and fundamentalist sect, the Antinomian Church.
Alaina railed at her quivering cousin, then she straightened, almost calmly, and strode arrogantly about the kitchen.
She set the astrolabe on the shelf, rested bow and quiver in the corner, and hung the partridges from the rafters.
Ludlow Baculum looked down at his beautiful, still buffed bod, his lower lip started quivering, and in no time, hot tears were streaming over his cheeks.
Imagination seized on distortions and ran rampant, until quivering flesh balked at mapping the scope of an ordeal driven amok.
Helene looked at them, and quivered amidst the benumbing drowsiness which little by little seemed to fall upon the whole house.
I am not so besotted yet that I do not recognize a hot poker quivering in my belly.
Adam wondered if Billie saw how her mouth quivered at the corner and the panic in her eyes.
Martin and Garret pulled arrows from back quivers in fluid motions, set arrow to bowstring, and let fly with uncommon quickness and accuracy.
Olympos back at the quivering Brane Hole, gave the little moravec a distracted look but nodded and walked with him toward the cluster of Achaean captains.
He had thrown off his steel cap and his brigandine, and had placed them with his sword, his quiver and his painted long-bow, on the top of his varied heap of plunder in the corner.
A gray brindled tomcat perched on the back of the seat and regarded him with a superior smirk, whiskers quivering.
His breath left him in a thunderous rush and she held the phone tight to her ear, her lips brushing the mouthpiece as she imagined his orgasm quivering through her too, through muscles already exhausted, nerves already strummed and sated.