quaver
quaver is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument
- 2.To utter with quavers. We shall hear her quavering them . . . to some sprightly airs of the opera. Addison.
- 3.A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
- 4.(Mus.) An eighth note. See Eighth.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument called?
- What is to utter with quavers. We shall hear her quavering them . . . to some sprightly airs of the opera. Addison called?
- What is a shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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