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Webster 1913 Edition

Quake

Quake

(kwāk)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Quaked
(kwākt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Quaking
.]
[AS.
cwacian
; cf. G.
quackeln
. Cf.
Quagmire
.]
1.
To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
“Quaking for dread.”
Chaucer.
She stood
quaking
like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.
Sir P. Sidney.
2.
To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind;
as, the earth
quakes
; the mountains
quake
.
“ Over quaking bogs.”
Macaulay.

Quake

,
Verb.
T.
[Cf. AS.
cweccan
to move, shake. See
Quake
,
Verb.
T.
]
To cause to quake.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Quake

(kwāk)
,
Noun.
1.
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

Webster 1828 Edition

Quake

QUAKE

, v.i.
1.
To shake; to tremble; to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated; to shudder. Thus we say, a person quakes with fear or terror, or with cold. Heb. 12.
2.
To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. Neh. 1.
3.
To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as the quaking mud.

QUAKE

,
Verb.
T.
To frighten; to throw into agitation. [Not used.]

QUAKE

,
Noun.
A shake; a trembling; a shudder; a tremulous agitation.

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