[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. That quakes, in senses of the vb.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 32. Seo cwaciʓende swustor.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxvii. (Machor), 1018. Ȝeit þan with quaquand voice said he [etc.].
c. 1440. Lydg., Secrees, 334. With quakyng penne my consceyt to expresse.
1508. Dunbar, Goldyn Targe, 156. Schamefull Abaising, And quaking Drede.
1586. Warner, Alb. Eng., I. v. (1612), 16. The queaking heards-man scarce had said thus much.
1728. Pope, Dunc., II. 292. Slow circles dimpled o’er The quaking mud, that clos’d, and op’d no more.
1842. Brande, Dict. Science, etc. 1008. Quaking bog. Peat bog … so saturated with water that a considerable extent of surface will quake or shake, when pressed on by the foot.
1875. Lyell, Princ. Geol., II. III. xliv. 510. Cattle venturing on a ‘quaking moss’ are often mired.
† 2. That is, or befits, a Quaker; Quaker-. Obs.
1654. Burrough & Howgil, Answ. Queries, in Farmer, Myst. Godl. & Ungodl., 37. A paper which was directed to Rich. Roper, and to his Quaking friend [etc.].
1673. H. Hallywell, Acc. Familism, v. 94. If the Quaking Generation shall object and say, that this was under the Law.
1717. Mrs. Centlivre, Bold Stroke for a Wife, Dram. Pers., Simon Pure, a quaking preacher.
1720. De Foe, Capt. Singleton, xi. (1840), 191. He always put it off with some quaking quibble or other.
1755. J. Shebbeare, Lydia (1769), I. 310. Lydia’s misfortunes commence from the source of quaking probity.
