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Webster 1828 Edition

, ppr.

1. Breaking or dashing into small pieces.

2. Quaking; trembling; shaking, as with cold or fear.

Noun.

1. The act of breaking or dashing to pieces; division; severance.

2. A trembling; a shaking with cold or fear.

shivering

shivering ‎(plural shiverings)

The action of shivering.
- 1847, Fleetwood Churchill, Robert M. Huston, The diseases of females: including those of pregnancy and childbed
  Generally speaking, the attack does not involve more inconvenience than this; but in some cases there are shiverings and flushings, cough, loss of appetite, and pain in the right side...

the act of trembling with cold or fear