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Quaking \Quak"ing\,
a. & n. from {Quake}, v.
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{Quaking aspen} (Bot.), an American species of poplar
({Populus tremuloides}), the leaves of which tremble in
the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen.
See {Aspen}.

{Quaking bog}, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water
that it shakes when trodden upon.

{Quaking grass}. (Bot.)
(a) One of several grasses of the genus {Briza}, having
slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which
quake and rattle in the wind. {Briza maxima} is the large
quaking grass; {Briza media} and {Briza minor} are the
smaller kinds.
(b) Rattlesnake grass ({Glyceria Canadensis}).
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Quake \Quake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quaked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Quaking}.] [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. {Quagmire}.]
1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually
repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to
tremble. "Quaking for dread." --Chaucer.
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She stood quaking like the partridge on which the
hawk is ready to seize. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid,
as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind;
as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. " Over quaking
bogs." --Macaulay.
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