Emily Dickinson Lexicon

QUAKE, v.i. [Sax. cwacian; G. quackeln; Eth. ሀወከ hwyka, to shake, to agitate.]

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. xii.
2. To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. – Neh. i.
3. To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as, the quaking mud. – Pope.