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ch a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. "All to shivers dashed." Milton.

A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.

In a shivering manner.

Tremulous; shivering. Mallet.

To shiver or break in pieces. [Obs.]

Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky. Her aguish love now glows and burns. Granville.

particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.

e but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "[A] wintry chill." W. Irving.

Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

To shiver or chatter with cold. [Scot.] Burns.

Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.

To shiver or tremble; to dodder. I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf. Ford.

To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills. Johnson.

om art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools. Tennyson.

To shiver; to have chills. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ray.

Pain in the head; ceph "Headaches and shivering fits." Macaulay.

A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

To pound. [Obs.] He would pun thee into shivers with his fist. Shak.

To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. Shak. And left the limbs still quivering on the ground. Addison.