Shiver \Shiv"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shivered; p. pr. & vb. n. Shivering.]

[OE. schiveren, scheveren; cf. OD. scheveren. See Shiver a fragment.]

To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.

All the ground With shivered armor strown. --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Shiver \Shiv"er\, n. [OE. schivere, fr. shive; cf. G. schifer a splinter, slate, OHG. scivere a splinter, Dan. & Sw. skifer a slate. See Shive, and cf. Skever.]

1. One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. ``All to shivers dashed.'' --Milton.

2. A thin slice; a shive. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

``A shiver of their own loaf.'' --Fuller.

Of your soft bread, not but a shiver. --Chaucer.

3. (Geol.) A variety of blue slate.

4. (Naut.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.

5. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.

6. A spindle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Shiver \Shiv"er\, v. i. To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.

There shiver shafts upon shields thick. --Chaucer

The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. --Woodward.

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Shiver \Shiv"er\, v. i. [OE. chiveren, cheveren; of uncertain origin. This word seems to have been confused with shiver to shatter.]

To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.

Prometheus is laid On icy Caucasus to shiver. --Swift.

The man that shivered on the brink of sin, Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in. --Creech.

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Shiver \Shiv"er\, v. t. (Naut.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.

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Shiver \Shiv"er\, n. The act of shivering or trembling.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)