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Webster 1913 Edition
Quaking
Quak′ing
,Quaking aspen
(Bot.)
, an American species of poplar (
– Populus tremuloides
), the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen
. Quaking bog
, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon.
– Quaking grass
. (Bot.)
(a)
One of several grasses of the genus
Briza
, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima
is the large quaking grass; Briza media
and Briza minor
are the smaller kinds. (b)
Rattlesnake grass (
Glyceria Canadensis
).Webster 1828 Edition
Quaking
QUA'KING
,ppr.
QUA'KING
,Noun.
Dan. 10.