hid me - Like a sword in its scabbard, or a shaft in the quiver, Messiah, before His appearing, was hid with God, ready to be drawn forth at the moment God saw fit also always protected by God, as the arrow by the quiver (Isa 51: 16).Ĭommentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871 "Polished," that is, free from all rust, implies His unsullied purity. Public Servants Protecting Your Money 1995 The fourth, and perhaps the most important arrow in OSPE's quiver is direct intervention. Sound Politics: The 20 Minute Anti-War Commercial On KUOW 2007 The last, thin quiver in the Wingnut quill, of course, is blaming the media. verb move with or as if with a regular alternating motionĪ quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.verb shake with fast, tremulous movements.noun an almost pleasurable sensation of fright.noun Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun obsolete The collective noun for cobras.noun figuratively A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.noun weaponry A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.verb intransitive To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion to tremble to quake to shudder to shiver.intransitive verb To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion to tremble to quake to shudder to shiver.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun The act or state of quivering a tremor.noun A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.noun A case for holding arrows or crossbow-bolts.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun The act or state of quivering a tremulous motion a tremor a flutter a shudder a shiver.To flutter or be agitated with a tremulous motion.To quake tremble shake tremulously shudder shiver.Quick-change artist (1886) originally was an actor expert in playing different roles in the same performance of a show. Quick buck is from 1946, American English. To be quick about something is from 1937. 1200).Īs an adverb, "quickly, in a quick manner," from c. ![]() Also formerly of bright flowers or colors (c. Also in Middle English "with child, in an advanced state of pregnancy" (when the woman can feel the child move within). where the ground is shifting and yielding (mid-14c., compare quicksand). Also in Middle English used of soft soils, gravel pits, etc. ![]() Of an action, process, etc., "done in little time," 1540s. ![]() Of persons, "mentally active, prompt to perceive or respond to impressions" from late 15c. ![]() A somewhat similar feeling may distinguish NHG schnell and rasch or it may be more a matter of local preference. 1300, on notion of "full of life." NE swift or the now more common fast may apply to rapid motion of any duration, while in quick (in accordance with its original sense of 'live, lively') there is a notion of 'sudden' or 'soon over.' We speak of a fast horse or runner in a race, a quick starter but not a quick horse. Middle English quik, from Old English cwic "living, alive, animate, characterized by the presence of life" (now archaic), and figuratively, of mental qualities, "rapid, ready," from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (source also of Old Saxon and Old Frisian quik, Old Norse kvikr "living, alive," Dutch kwik "lively, bright, sprightly," Old High German quec "lively," German keck "bold"), from PIE root *gwei- "to live." Sense of "lively, active, swift, speedy, hasty," developed by c.
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