The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Quaking \Quak"ing\,
a. & n. from Quake, v.
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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).
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Quake \Quake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quaking.] [AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. Quagmire.]
1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually
repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to
tremble. "Quaking for dread." --Chaucer.
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She stood quaking like the partridge on which the
hawk is ready to seize. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid,
as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind;
as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. " Over quaking
bogs." --Macaulay.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "quaking":
agitation, ague, aquiver, aspen, bumpiness, chattering,
chills of fear, chorea, cold creeps, cold shivers, cold sweat,
creeps, didder, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, fear and trembling,
fidgetiness, fidgets, fits and starts, flutter, goose bumps,
gooseflesh, heartquake, heaving, horripilation, inquietude,
jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, jimjams, joltiness, nervousness,
palpitation, palsied, palsy, panting, perturbation, pitapat,
pitter-patter, quaver, quavering, quavery, quiver,
quiver of terror, quivering, quivery, restlessness, shakes,
shaking, shaky, shiver, shivering, shivers, shivery, shudder,
shuddering, spasms, succussatory, succussion, succussive, sweat,
thrill of fear, throb, throbbing, tremble, trembling, trembly,
tremor, tremulant, tremulous, tremulousness, trepidation,
trepidity, twitter, uneasiness, unrest, vibrating, vibration,
wobbly