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.”