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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Quake v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quaked p. pr. & vb. n. Quaking.]
 1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. Quaking for dread.”
    She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.   --Sir P. Sidney.
 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.”