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noun

Quaver n.

A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.

(Mus.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

verb

Quaver v. t. To utter with quavers. "We shall hear her quavering them... to some sprightly airs of the opera."

Quaver v. i. (past & past part. quavered; pres. part. quavering)

To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.

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

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Etymology of 'Quaver'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Quaver" Quotes from Famous Books

... a most pathetic quaver in the rendering, and then big Captain Sartell broke down, with a helpless gulp in his voice, and I, who believed myself of too superior and refined a nature to be moved by such tawdry sentiment, was further dismayed to feel the tears gathering fast ...

— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene

... gown and cap ruinated, my nursery spattered with mud, the back stairs like a street with clay an' rain, yourselves drenched an' drownded, an' your clothes spoiled. And into the bargain," added Nancy, with a quaver in her voice, "my spectacles broken into smash, an' I without e'er another pair to see my way ...

— Terry - Or, She ought to have been a Boy • Rosa Mulholland

... lovely?" cried Dodo, "I want to pick everything." She began to fill her hands with dandelions. "Only I wish that mother was here"—and a little quaver shook ...

— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues

... unskilful Throat to chop and alter, to twist and change, according to their infinitely divers and no less Odd Humours and Fancies. I have myself paused twice in one note to take breath. No two Men in the Congregation quaver alike or together, it sounds in the Ears of a Good Judge like five hundred different Tunes roared out at the same Time, with ...

— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle

... his inexhaustible fund of stories. Over most of them he laughed with us himself—a great gusty laugh that made the cheap glass ornaments upon the mantelpiece to tremble; but now and then a recollection came to him that spread a sudden gravity across his jovial face, bringing a curious quaver into his ...

— Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green • Jerome K. Jerome

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