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▪ I. trembling, vbl. n.|ˈtrɛmblɪŋ|
[f. tremble v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb tremble in various senses; in quot. 1902, spec. ague in sheep (see tremble n. 2).
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4912 Ȝyf he lerne gylerye Fals wurde and feynt trenlyng [v.r. tremlynge]. 1382Wyclif Eph. vi. 5 Seruauntis, obeysche ȝe to fleishly lordis with drede and tremblyng, in symplenesse of ȝoure herte, as to Crist. c1400Song Roland 54 Trymlinge of tabers And tymbring soft. c1440Promp. Parv. 501/2 Tremelynge, or qwakynge, tremor. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 112 b, Transformynge our gesture or countenaunce, as in tremblynge. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. App. iv, All my spirits move with pleasant trembeling. 1693Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 25 A ship from Jamaica brings that the earth there had some tremblings again. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 2 At the sound of the word trembling came upon me. 1902N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. Nov. 602/2 Sheep has been lost by the trembling.
b. attrib., as trembling fit; † trembling-stop, a tremolo organ-stop.
1659J. Leak Waterwks. 34 The Systemes and Measures of the Organ Pipes,..also of the manner of the Registers,..the Trembling stop, &c. 1856Kane Arct. Explor. I. xvi. 191 Men..were seized with trembling-fits and short breath.
▪ II. ˈtrembling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
a. That trembles, in various senses of the verb.
a1400–50Alexander 4914 (Ashm. MS.) Þe testre trased full of trones with trimballand wingis. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 257 With tremblynge herte and holy fere, thynkyng hym selfe vnworthy to touche that moost holy body. c1614Sir W. Mure Dido & æneas i. 269 A contrare blast Doth force his saile against the trembling mast. a1628Sir J. Beaumont Bosworth F. 66 Which like a twinkling Star, with trembling Light Sends radiant Lustre through the darksome Air. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 207 The lookers on incessantly warble out soft trembling Musique. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xi, It was delivered in..low and trembling accents. 1877Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. x. 122 [He] let in the trembling wretches who had been shut out.
b. transf. Characterized or accompanied by trembling.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems, Pater Noster, Atwyxe dred and tremblyng reuerence Astoned I am. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, i. ii. 95 Sixt part of each? A trembling contribution. 1794Blake Songs Exper., Little Boy Lost 10 In trembling zeal he seized his hair. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxxv, To the butler's trembling entreaties..he at first returned no answer.
c. In specific applications: trembling aixies or exies (cf. access n. 10), the ague (Sc.); trembling beef, some dish of boiled beef (? obs.); cf. trembling-piece; trembling bog, bog-land formed over water or soft mud, which shakes at every tread, a quaking bog; so trembling prairie, in Louisiana, U.S.A.; trembling-chair: see quot.; trembling eel, the gymnotus; trembling-grass, quaking-grass (Briza media); trembling-ill, the ague in sheep (Sc.); trembling palsy, paralysis characterized by trembling of the extremities or the head (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1899); trembling-piece [F. pièce tremblante], a joint of beef so interlarded with fat as to quiver; trembling-poplar, the Aspen, Populus tremula, also the N. American P. tremuloides.
1808–18Jamieson, Trembling Fevers, the ague, Ang. *Trembling Aixes [ed. 1825 Exies]. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xi, The cookmaid in the trembling exies.
1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 238 *Trembling Beef. Take a brisket of beef, and boil it gently [etc.].
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 653 He lives on standing Lakes, and *trembling Bogs.
1899Syd. Soc. Lex., *Trembling chair, a vibrating chair used in the treatment of paralysis.
1807Joyce Sci. Dialogues xvi. (1846) 397 (Electricity) In Firmin's ‘Natural History of Surinam’ is some account of the *trembling eel.
1853G. Johnston Bot. E. Bord. 216 Briza media, *Trembling-grass: Quaking-grass.
1833Wilson Fr. & Eng. Dict. s.v. Tremblant, *Trembling-piece.
1731P. Miller Gardeners Dict. s.v. Populus. The *Trembling Poplar, or Aspen-Tree. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 120 (Aspen, or Trembling Poplar)..is a middle-sized tree. |