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Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.

To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson.

To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears. When such strings jar, what hope of harmony Shak. A string may jar in the best master's hand. Roscommon.

A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a steamship, caused by its engines.

A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.

Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument

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.

To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.

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.

voice; 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.