Shiver

Definition of Shiver

Shiv´er

n.	1.	One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; - generally used in the plural.
	2.	A thin slice; a shive. Of your soft bread, not but a shiver. - Chaucer.
	3.	(Geol.) A variety of blue slate.
	4.	(Naut.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
	5.	A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
	6.	A spindle.
v. t.	1.	To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet. [imp. & p. p. Shivered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shivering.] All the ground With shivered armor strown. - Milton.
v. i.	1.	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.
	1.	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.
v. t.	1.	(Naut.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
n.	1.	The act of shivering or trembling.

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