Definition of Quivir
Quiv"er (kw&ibreve;v"&etilde;r), a.
[Akin to AS. cwiferlice anxiously; cf. OD. kuiven,
kuiveren. Cf. Quaver.] Nimble; active.
[Obs.] " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
Quiv"er, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Quivered (-&etilde;rd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Quivering.] [Cf. Quaver.] To shake or
move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to
shudder; to shiver.
The green leaves quiver with the cooling
wind. Shak.
And left the limbs still quivering on the
ground. Addison.
Quiv"er, n. The act or state of
quivering; a tremor.
Quiv"er, n. [OF. cuivre,
cuevre, coivre, LL. cucurum, fr. OHG.
chohhāri quiver, receptacle, G. köcher
quiver; akin to AS. cocor, cocur, cocer, D.
koker. Cf. Cocker a high shoe.] A case or sheath
for arrows to be carried on the person.
Beside him hung his bow
And quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored.
Milton.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the
aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.
He extracted from his quiver,
Did the controversial Roman,
An argument well fitted
To the question as submitted,
Then addressed it to the liver,
Of the unpersuaded foeman.
Oglum P. Boomp
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- (Weapons) Category:Weapon A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
Quotations
*1598: Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly. Benedick:I look for an earthquake too then. — William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 271.
*1786: Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39.
- To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
Quotations
*1593: The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind And make a checker'd shadow on the ground. — William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene III, line 12.
- (Obsolete) Nimble, active.
Quotations
*1598: ... there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in. — William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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