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noun

Shiver n.

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."

A thin slice; a shive. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "A shiver of their own loaf." "Of your soft bread, not but a shiver."

(Geol.) A variety of blue slate.

(Naut.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.

A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.

A spindle. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

Shiver n. The act of shivering or trembling.

verb

Shiver v. t. (past & past part. shivered; pres. part. shivering) 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."

Shiver v. t. (Naut.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.

Shiver v. i. To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered. "There shiver shafts upon shields thick." "The natural world, should gravity once cease,... would instantly shiver into millions of atoms."

Shiver v. i. To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear. "Prometheus is laid On icy Caucasus to shiver." "The man that shivered on the brink of sin, Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in."

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"Shiver" Quotes from Famous Books

... tenth time perhaps with a heavy shiver. Seeing the light of day in his window, he resisted the inclination to lay himself down again. He did not remember anything, but he did not think it strange to find himself on the sofa in his cloak and chilled ...

— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad

... had doubles, so had William. There was a William Shakespeare drowned in the Avon, and buried at St. Nicholas, Warwick, July 6, 1579.[234] The world would not have known what it had lost had this fate overtaken "our Will," but it makes us shiver now as we think of it, even as a past possibility. It has been thought that this youth was the son of Thomas Shakespeare, shoemaker, of Warwick, and brother of John the shoemaker of Stratford. But he seems rather young ...

— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes

... ground in the woods, the warbler infants,—redstart and chestnut-sided—that I knew were sitting humped up and miserable in some watery place under the berry bushes, the young tanager only just out of the nest, and the two cuckoo babies, thrust out of their home at the untimely age of seven days, to shiver around ...

— Little Brothers of the Air • Olive Thorne Miller

... would be bawling for his blood. The young college men of the Nation and the New Republic would be lecturing him weekly. He would be used to scare children in Kansas and Arkansas. The chautauquas would shiver whenever his ...

— Damn! - A Book of Calumny • Henry Louis Mencken

... began, in the cool liquid tone that made her shiver, "it is time that we should understand each other." ...

— Romola • George Eliot

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