Wordie: Quiver

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(n): an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

(n): a shaky motion

(n): a state of change

(n): case for holding arrows

(n): a portable container for carrying several objects

(n): the act of vibrating

(n): a change of position that does not entail a change of location

(v): shake with fast, tremulous movements

(v): move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways

(v): move back and forth very rapidly

(v): move in one direction and then into the opposite direction

(v): move with or as if with a regular alternating motion

(v): move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion

verb, noun

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6 months ago sillygoose said:

A case for holding or carrying arrows, or the arrows carried in said case. May also refer to a collection of surfboards or skateboards.

Finally, it is a term that a fundamentalist Christian sect uses to describe their movement to have as many babies as possible -- Full Quiver Theology, based on the reading of Psalm 127: 3-5: "Children are a heritage of the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. As arrows in a soldier's hand, so are the sons of the young. Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them."

9 months ago skipvia said:

A group of cobras

11 months ago oroboros said:

...and don't forget that ever-racy color: vermillion. ;oP

11 months ago suunflowerss said:

my favorite word from my trashy novel era..... "his manhood quivered at the sight of her virginal breast"

about 1 year ago brtom said:

Then Crown'd again thir gold'n Harps they took,
Harps ever tun'd, that glittering by thir side
Like Quivers hung ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III

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