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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands" [syn: {quaking}, {shaking}, {shaky}, {shivering}, {trembling}]
noun
1: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: {shaking}, {shakiness}, {trembling}, {quiver}, {vibration}, {palpitation}]
2: the act of vibrating [syn: {vibration}, {quiver}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "quivering": aflicker, agitated, ague, all shook up, all-overish, anxious, apprehensive, aquiver, aspen, bickering, blinking, bumpiness, chattering, chorea, cold shivers, dance, dancing, didder, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, fidgetiness, fidgeting, fidgets, fidgety, fits and starts, flashing, flicker, flickering, flickering light, flickery, flicky, flutter, fluttering, fluttery, glancing light, heaving, in a quiver, in suspense, inquietude, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, jittery, joltiness, jumpy, keyed-up, lambency, lambent, light show, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, palpitation, palsied, palsy, panting, pitapat, pitter-patter, play, play of light, playing, quaking, quaver, quavering, quavery, quiver, quivery, restlessness, shakes, shaking, shaky, shiver, shivering, shivers, shivery, shook up, shudder, shuddering, skittery, spasms, stroboscopic, succussatory, succussion, succussive, taut, tense, throb, throbbing, tremble, trembling, trembly, tremor, tremulant, tremulous, tremulousness, trepidation, trepidity, twitchy, twitter, twittery, unrest, vibrating, vibration, wavering, wavery, with bated breath, with muscles tense, wobbly
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