quiver
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Is quiver a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.Examples: "Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly."; "Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle."
2. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.Examples: "He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver."figuratively
3. (obsolete) A vulva.obsolete
4. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.obsolete
5. (mathematics) A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Nimble, active.Examples: "[...] 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."archaic
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.Examples: "The birds chaunt melodie on euerie buſh, The ſnakes^([sic – meaning ſnake]) lies rolled in the chearefull ſunne, The greene leaues quiuer with the cooling winde, And make a checkerd ſhadow on the ground: [...]"; "And left the limbs still quivering on the ground."; "Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale."Synonyms: tremble, quake, shudder, shiverintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary