quivered, a. and ppl. a. Chiefly poet.
(ˈkwɪvəd)
[f. quiver n.1 or v.1 + -ed.]
1. Provided or equipped with a quiver.
| 1634 Milton Comus 422 Like a quiver'd Nymph with Arrows keen. a 1661 B. Holyday Juvenal 22 Quiver'd Semiramis th' Assyrian ne're Did thus. 1717 Addison tr. Ovid's Met. Wks. 1758 I. 169 Diana, with a sprightly train Of quiver'd virgins. 1813 Scott Rokeby i. xxi, A giant he, With quivered back. 1874 W. Bruce Hebrew Odes 24 Safe from the shout of the quivered foe. |
2. Placed or kept in, or as in, a quiver.
| 1651 Sherburne Rape Helen, When his quiver'd Shafts she did not see, She knew he was not Love. 1725 Pope Odyss. xxii. 4 Full in their face the lifted bow he bore, And quiver'd deaths. 1846 Keble Lyra Innoc. (1873) 175 If she once unlock her quivered store. |