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shiver

SHIV'ER, n.

1. In mineralogy, a species of blue slate; shist; shale.

2. In seamen's language, a little wheel; a sheeve.

SHIV'ER, v.t. [supra. Qu. Heb. to break in pieces. Class Br. No.26.] To break into many small pieces or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow.

The ground with shiver'd armor strown. Milton.

SHIV'ER, v.i.

1. To fell at once into many small pieces or parts.

The natural world, should gravity once cease, would instantly shiver into of millions of atoms. Woodward.

2. To quake; to tremble; to shudder; to shake, as with cold, ague; fear or horror.

The man that shiver'd on the brink of sin. Dryden.

Prometeus is laid

On icy Caucasus to shiver. Swift.

3. To be affected with a thrilling sensation, like that of chillness.

Any very harsh noise will set the teeth on edge, and make all the body shiver.



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SHIV'ER, n.

1. In mineralogy, a species of blue slate; shist; shale.

2. In seamen's language, a little wheel; a sheeve.

SHIV'ER, v.t. [supra. Qu. Heb. to break in pieces. Class Br. No.26.] To break into many small pieces or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow.

The ground with shiver'd armor strown. Milton.

SHIV'ER, v.i.

1. To fell at once into many small pieces or parts.

The natural world, should gravity once cease, would instantly shiver into of millions of atoms. Woodward.

2. To quake; to tremble; to shudder; to shake, as with cold, ague; fear or horror.

The man that shiver'd on the brink of sin. Dryden.

Prometeus is laid

On icy Caucasus to shiver. Swift.

3. To be affected with a thrilling sensation, like that of chillness.

Any very harsh noise will set the teeth on edge, and make all the body shiver.


SHIV'ER, n.1 [G. schiefer, a splinter, slate; schiefern, to shiver, to scale; Dan. skive, Sw. skifva, a slice; Dan. skifer, skiver, a slate; skifer sig, to shiver, peel or split, Sw. skifva sig.]

  1. In mineralogy, a species of blue slate; shist; shale.
  2. In seamen's language, a little wheel; a sheave.

SHIV'ER, n.2

A small piece or fragment into which a thing breaks by any sudden violence. He would pound thee into shivers with his fist, as a sailor breaks a biscuit. – Shak.


SHIV'ER, v.i.

  1. To fall at once into many small pieces or parts. The natural world, should gravity once cease, would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. – Woodward.
  2. To quake; to tremble; to shudder; to shake, as with cold, ague, fear or horror. The man that shiver'd on the brink of sin. – Dryden. Prometheus is laid / On icy Caucasus to shiver. – Swift.
  3. To be affected with a thrilling sensation, like that of chilliness. Any very harsh noise will set the teeth on edge, and make all the body shiver. – Bacon.

SHIVER, v.t. [supra. Qu. Heb. שבר, to break into pieces. Class Br, No. 26.]

To break into many small pieces or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow. The ground with shiver'd armor strown. Milton.


Shiv"er
  1. 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." Milton.
  2. 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.     Milton.

  3. To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.

    There shiver shafts upon shields thick. Chaucer

    The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. Woodward.

  4. To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.

    Prometheus is laid
    On icy Caucasus to shiver.     Swift.

    The man that shivered on the brink of sin,
    Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in.     Creech.

  5. To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
  6. The act of shivering or trembling.
  7. A thin slice; a shive.

    [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "A shiver of their own loaf." Fuller.

    Of your soft bread, not but a shiver. Chaucer.

  8. A variety of blue slate.
  9. A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
  10. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
  11. A spindle.

    [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Shiver

SHIV'ER, noun

1. In mineralogy, a species of blue slate; shist; shale.

2. In seamen's language, a little wheel; a sheeve.

SHIV'ER, verb transitive [supra. Qu. Heb. to break in pieces. Class Br. No.26.] To break into many small pieces or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow.

The ground with shiver'd armor strown. Milton.

SHIV'ER, verb intransitive

1. To fell at once into many small pieces or parts.

The natural world, should gravity once cease, would instantly shiver into of millions of atoms. Woodward.

2. To quake; to tremble; to shudder; to shake, as with cold, ague; fear or horror.

The man that shiver'd on the brink of sin. Dryden.

Prometeus is laid

On icy Caucasus to shiver. Swift.

3. To be affected with a thrilling sensation, like that of chillness.

Any very harsh noise will set the teeth on edge, and make all the body shiver.

Shak.

SHIV'ER, noun

1. A small piece or fragment into which a thing breaks by any sudden violence.

He would pound thee into shivers with his fist, as a sailor breaks his biscuit.

Shak.

2. A slice; a sliver.

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