1. Shake with fast, tremulous movements
   "His nostrils quivered";
   - quake, palpitate
    
2. Move back and forth very rapidly
   "the candle quivered";
   - flicker, waver, flitter, flutter
    
3. Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
   "the city quivered with music and excitement";
   - pulsate, beat

1. Case for holding arrows
   "The archer reached for an arrow in his quiver"
    
2. A shaky motion
   "the quiver of his fingers as he lit his pipe";
   - shaking, shakiness, trembling, quivering, vibration, palpitation
    
3. The act of vibrating
   "A quiver ran through her body as she heard the news";
   - vibration, quivering
    
4. An almost pleasurable sensation of fright
   "a quiver of surprise shot through him";
   - frisson, shiver, chill, shudder, thrill [literary], tingle

Derived forms: quivers, quivered, quivering

Type of: case, fear, fearfulness, fright, motility, motion, move, move back and forth, movement, tremble

Encyclopedia: Quiver