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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vibrate \Vi"brate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Vibrate}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vibrating}.] [L. vibratus, p. p. of vibrare, verb (used with an object) & v. i., to snake, brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, vibrate. See {Waive} and cf. {Whip}, v. t.]
1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds.
3. To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may . . . impress a swift, tremulous motion. --Holder.
Star to star vibrates light. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vibrating
adjective: moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down; "the vibrating piano strings" [syn: {vibratory}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "vibrating": aspen, ceaseless, chattering, constant, continual, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, full, harmonic, incessant, libratory, machine gun, mellow, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, palsied, pendular, pendulous, perennial, periodic, perpetual, plangent, pulsating, pulsing, quaking, quavering, quavery, quivering, quivery, rapid, regular, repeated, resonant, resonating, rich, rolling, shaking, shaky, shivering, shivery, shuddering, sonorous, staccato, steady, stuttering, succussatory, succussive, sustained, throbbing, trembling, trembly, tremulous, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vacillating, vacillatory, vibrant, vibratile, vibratory, wavering, wobbly
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