You're fighting for skills all the time and you need as many arrows in your quiver as possible. Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun. And he's using every weapon in the arsenal he's got, but some of the arrows in his quiver might land in the wrong place. Frequency: To shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement. Quiver To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion to tremble to quake to shudder to shiver. The President feels very strongly on this - this is his legacy. I am delighted with the increased commitment to share repurchases, it may be a very large arrow in Berkshire's quiver to increase intrinsic value on a per-share basis. They represent one arrow in the quiver - alongside private capital, traditional IPOs and acquisitions. Zelmane would have put to her helping hand, but she was taken with such a quivering, that she thought it more wisdom to lean herself to a tree and look on. The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze.Īlexander Pope. The dying gales that pant upon the trees, With what a spring his furious soul broke loose,Īnd left the limbs still quivering on the ground.Įurydice with quiv’ring voice he mourn’d,Īnd verdant alders form’d a quiv’ring shade. He quiver’d with his feet, and lay for dead. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind.įorward he flew, and pitching on his head, to shake slightly, often because of strong emotion 2. To quake to play with a tremulous motion. quiver - definition, audio pronunciation and more for quiver: 1.
Her sounding quiver on her shoulder ty’d, or cover.ĭiana’s nymphs would be arrayed in white, their arms and shoulders naked, bows in their hands, and quivers by their sides. There was a little quiver fellow, and he would manage you his piece thus and he would about and about.Įtymology: this word seems to be corrupted from couvrir, Fr. Quiver, in this sense, is related to the Old High German kohhari, the German Köcher, the Old Saxon kokar, the Old Frisian koker and the Old English cocur (all of which mean ‘quiver’).Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: It is of Germanic origin, and can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic kukur (container), which is, according to some linguists, from the language of the Huns.
It came into English from the Anglo French quivier (Old French quivre or cuivre).
The noun quiver, meaning ‘a case for holding arrows,’ dates back to the early 14th century. The noun, meaning ‘a trembling,’ dates back to the early 18th century, and comes from the verb. A third theory is that it is related to the Old English cwifer– (zealous), which may be related to cwic (alive), from the Proto-Germanic quikaz and the Proto-Indo-Eurpean root gwei– (to live), which would make it related to the adjective quick. Some linguists believe it may have emerged as an imitation of the sound or a slight tremble, while others believe it is an alteration of the Middle English verb quaveren (now quaver, which also means ‘to vibrate or tremble’). Quiver, meaning ‘to tremble,’ dates back to the late 15th century.
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