Dictionary entry

Shiver (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Shiv″er, v. i. [OE. chiveren, cheveren; of uncertain origin. This word seems to have been confused with shiver to shatter.] To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.

Prometheus is laid

On icy Caucasus to shiver. Swift.

The man that shivered on the brink of sin,

Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in. Creech.