Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for QUAKE
QUAKE, v.i. [Sax. cwacian; G. quackeln; Eth. ሀወከ hwyka, to shake, to agitate.]
- 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.
- To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. – Neh. i.
- To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as, the quaking mud. – Pope.
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