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▪ I. shivery, a.1|ˈʃɪvərɪ|
[f. shiver n.1 + -y1.]
Apt to split into flakes, brittle, flaky.
shivery salt: ? a salt exhibiting a laminal texture.
1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. 87 Cause a small Ballance to be forged out of the blade of an old Sword, that it may have..nothing ruff or shivery [orig. Ger. schifferig]..on it. 1748Brownrigg Art of Making Salt 72 In making a kind of salt called shivery salt they use yet more gentle fires. 1794Schmeisser Syst. Min. I. 145 Its texture is rather shivery or fibrous. 1797Robison in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 280/2 Shivery angular stones of the size of an egg. 1858Geikie Story Boulder x. 198 This rock is worthless as a source of lime, nor from its irregular laminations and shivery structure has it much value in any other way.
▪ II. shivery, a.2|ˈʃɪvərɪ|
[f. shiver v.2 + -y.]
1. Characterized by a shaking, quivering motion, or appearance of motion.
1747Mallet Amyntor & Theodora iii. 532 His frame with shivery horror shook. 1817Keatinge Trav. I. 59 The shivery appearance his engravings convey, totally misrepresents the features of this extraordinary mass. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xiv, The shivery canes, and the tall, dark cypress, hung with wreaths of dark, funereal moss, glow in the golden ray.
2. Inclined to shiver. Also shivery-shaky.
1837Marryat Dog-Fiend xliii, I'm all wet and shivery. 1864Derby Day iv. 50 He's all shivery shakey as if he'd got the staggers or the cold shivers. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 826 She turns a little shivery and pale, at times even ashy. 1934J. Joyce Let. 13 Aug. (1966) III. 317, I have a fit of ague for the past 24 hours... O Lord, the one day I feel so shivery⁓shaky!
3. Causing a shivering feeling, chilly.
1839Hood Ode for Ninth Nov. 15 Was there no better day To fix on, than November Ninth so shivery? 1905J. B. Firth Highw. Derbysh. iii. 44 It was a shivery place and gave her headaches.
Add:4. Special collocation: shivery grass Austral. and N.Z., the little quaking-grass, Briza minor. Cf. shivering grass s.v. shivering ppl. a.2 2 c.
1926F. W. Hilgendorf Weeds N.Z. 249/1 (Index), *Shivery grass. 1930A. J. Ewart Flora Victoria 158 B[riza] Minor L., Shivery Grass. 1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling xiii. 114 He has a marvellous collection of native grasses, nardoo, Mitchell, neverfail, and a dozen others, including shivery. 1967M. Morris in Coast to Coast 1965–66 126 She sat..watching the wind take shape in the patch of shivery-grass. 1986Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 22 June 15/1 Shivery grass can be grown among annuals and is a pleasant addition to a mixed bed. |