| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. 2. (n.) A thin slice; a sliver. 3. (n.) A variety of blue slate. 4. (n.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley. 5. (n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter. 6. (n.) A spindle. 7. (v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet. 8. (v. i.) To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered. 9. (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear. 10. (v. t.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind. 11. (n.) The act of shivering or trembling. | Multi-Version Concordance Shiver (3 Occurrences) Exodus 34:13 for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down; (YLT) Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire; (YLT) Isaiah 45:2 I go before thee, and crooked places make straight, Two-leaved doors of brass I shiver, And bars of iron I cut asunder, (YLT) |