Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Quake

Quake (kwāk) , intransitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon cwacian; compare German quackeln. Compare 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
She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. — Sir P. Sidney
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

Quake , transitive verb

[Compare Anglo-Saxon cweccan to move, shake. See Quake, transitive verb]

To cause to quake. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare

Quake (kwāk) , noun

1.
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
2.
An earthquake.