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▪ I. tremor, n.|ˈtrɛmə(r), ˈtriːmə(r)|
Also 4– 9 -our, 5 -oure.
[ME. tremour, a. OF. tremor, -our fear, terror (13th c. in Godef.), also a trembling or quivering (15th c.):—L. tremor, -ōrem, f. tremĕre to tremble. In 17th c. reintroduced in L. form tremor.]
†1. Terror. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 255 Swich a tremor [v.r. tremour] fele a-boute his herte That of þe feer his body sholde quake. 1490Caxton Eneydos xv. 60 To solace and dysporte thy self euermore wyth the thondre and weddrynges, for to gyue unto vs tremoure and feere. Ibid. xxii. 81 Horrible dremes & cruel, comen to-fore her in hir mynde that tormente her in tremoure merueyllous.
2. Involuntary agitation of the body or limbs, resulting from physical infirmity or from fear or other strong emotion; trembling: see quot. 1866.
[1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 110, I haue Tremor Cordis on me: my heart daunces.] 1615Crooke Body of Man 401 The disease called Tremor, or the shaking palsie. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 154 His lips are contracted by tremor. 1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 428 An approach to syncope, accompanied with more or less of universal tremor, and spasmodic twitchings, are said to have occurred. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 815 Tremor, that is, alternate contraction and relaxation of muscles in rapid succession, is a symptom of certain lesions of the nervous centres.
b. With a and pl. An instance of this; a fit of trembling.
1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Tremour, a trembling. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments v. (1735) 146 By its styptick and stimulating Quality it [tea] affects the Nerves..occasioning Tremors. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 97 A tremor of the hands is often lessened or removed, for a while, by a dram, or some strong wine. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 305 To a tremor of age their gray infirmity rocking.
c. fig. A nervous thrill caused by emotion or excitement; also, a state of tremulous agitation or excitement.
1754Richardson Grandison IV. vii. 51 He ceased speaking. I was in tremors. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles vi. ii, The tremors that unbidden rise. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxviii, He went about all day in a tremor of delight. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xii, [She] drew herself up very haughtily..to hide her tremor.
3. A tremulous or vibratory movement caused by some external impulse; a vibration, shaking, quivering. earth-tremor, an earthquake.
1635Heywood Hierarch. ix. 570 One of these Tremors lasted forty dayes, When six and twenty tow'rs and castles fell. 1656Blount Glossogr., Tremor, quaking, trembling, shaking, great fear, also an earthquake. 1728Pemberton Newton's Philos. 270 Motion consequent upon the tremors of the air, excited by the vibrations of sonorous bodies. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 324 All countries are liable to slight tremors..when some great crisis of subterranean movement agitates an adjoining volcanic region. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxix. (1856) 250 The peculiar tremor of a cotton⁓factory. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 187 Waves or tremors may be propagated in all directions through the solid ground.
4. A tremble or quaver in the voice; a tremulous sound or note.
1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian ii, The tremor of his voice..heightened its eloquence. 1838Lytton Calderon ii, There seemed a touch of true feeling in the tremour of his rich sweet voice. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxxi, There was a tremor in the old lady's voice more of disappointment and hurt than of anger.
5. attrib., as tremor disk, the telescopic image of a star, as apparently enlarged by the vibration of the telescope and of the atmosphere; tremor storm, a prolonged series of earth-tremors.
1889Milne in Nature 31 Oct. 658/1 At certain seasons tremor storms are very marked. 1905H. F. Newall in Athenæum 29 Apr. 534/1 On the general design of spectrographs for equatorials of large aperture, considered from the point of view of ‘tremor discs’.
Hence ˈtremorful a. dial., ˈtremorous a. rare, full of tremor; tremulous.
1901‘Zack’ Tales Dunstable Weir 39 ‘I'll not go nigh the maid’, Martin cried, sort of tremorful. 1907F. Thompson New Poems, Orient Ode 28 The tremorous nurse of joy.
▪ II. tremor, v.|ˈtrɛmə(r)|
[f. the n.]
intr. To be agitated by a tremor or tremors; to shake or tremble.
1921Chambers's Jrnl. XI. 858/1 The ship tremored, vibrated like mad. Ibid. 860/2 Her voice had tremor'd..with urgency. 1926M. Walsh Key above Door x. 113 His strong, big jowl was..tremoring with the chill. 1928― While Rivers Run vi. 68 His car was purring and tremoring. 1963A. Smith Throw out Two Hands xvi. 162 They [sc. zebras] went by in droves, and the earth tremored beneath them. |