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To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson.

Tremulous; shivering. Mallet.

Any sorrowful cry or sound. The tremulous sob of the complaining owl. Wordsworth.

Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.

ice; a sweet singer. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. Hawthorne.

A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy. Burns.

Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance. -- Thrill"ing*ly, adv. -- Thrill"ing*ness, n.

To quaver or shake, as sound; to be tremulous; as the voice trembles.

The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.

Tremulous; trembling; shaking. [R.] " With tremulent white rod." Carlyle.

To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet. Dryden.

To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises. The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed. Gray.

The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin.

Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums. Longfellow.

vibration. Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may . . . impress a swift, tremulous motion. Holder. Star to star vibrates light. Tennyson.

To strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition. In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in such a way of life as . . . to vie with the best of their family. Addison. While Waterloo with Cannæ's carnage vies. Byron.

To cause to shake; to tremble; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter. [Obs.]