Quake

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Quake - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

QUAKE, v.i.

1. To shake; to tremble; to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated; to shudder. Thus we say, a person quakes with fear or terror, or with cold. Heb 12.

2. To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. Neh 1.

3. To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as the quaking mud.

QUAKE, v.t. To frighten; to throw into agitation. [Not used.]

QUAKE, n. A shake; a trembling; a shudder; a tremulous agitation.

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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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