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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Quiver \Quiv"er\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Quivered \Quiv"ered\ (kw[i^]v"[~e]rd), adjective
1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. ''Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen.'' --Milton.
2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. ''Whose quills stand quivered at his ear.'' --Pope.
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