Definition of Quakeng
Quak"ing, a. & n. from
Quake, v.
Quaking aspen (Bot.), an American
species of poplar (Populus tremuloides), the leaves of which
tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen.
See Aspen. -- Quaking bog, a bog of
forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden
upon. -- Quaking grass. (Bot.)
(a) One of several grasses of the genus
Briza, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets,
which quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large
quaking grass; B. media and B. minor are the smaller
kinds. (b) Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria
Canadensis).
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- present participle of the verb to quake
- action of the verb to quake
- that shakes or shivers
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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