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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shiver \Shiv"er\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shivered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shivering}.] [OE. schiveren, scheveren; cf. OD. scheveren. See {Shiver} a fragment.] To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
All the ground With shivered armor strown. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shiver \Shiv"er\, noun [OE. schivere, fr. shive; cf. G. schifer a splinter, slate, OHG. scivere a splinter, Dan. & Sw. skifer a slate. See {Shive}, and cf. {Skever}.]
1. One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. ''All to shivers dashed.'' --Milton.
2. A thin slice; a shive. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] ''A shiver of their own loaf.'' --Fuller.
Of your soft bread, not but a shiver. --Chaucer.
3. (Geol.) A variety of blue slate.
4. (Naut.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
5. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
6. A spindle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shiver \Shiv"er\, verb (used without an object) To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
There shiver shafts upon shields thick. --Chaucer
The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. --Woodward.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shiver \Shiv"er\, verb (used without an object) [OE. chiveren, cheveren; of uncertain origin. This word seems to have been confused with shiver to shatter.] To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
Prometheus is laid On icy Caucasus to shiver. --Swift.
The man that shivered on the brink of sin, Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in. --Creech.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shiver \Shiv"er\, verb (used with an object) (Naut.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shiver \Shiv"er\, noun The act of shivering or trembling.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shiver
noun
1: reflex shaking caused by cold or fear or excitement [syn: {tremble}, {shake}]
2: an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: {frisson}, {chill}, {quiver}, {shudder}, {thrill}, {tingle}]
verb
1: tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement [syn: {shudder}, {throb}, {thrill}]
2: shake, as from cold; "The children are shivering--turn on the heat!" [syn: {shudder}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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