shiver

from The Century Dictionary.

• To break into many small fragments or splinters; shatter; dash to pieces at a blow.
• Synonyms Shatter, etc. See dash.
• To burst, fly, or fall at once into many small pieces of parts.
• To shake; shudder; tremble; quiver; specifically, to shake with cold.
• Synonyms Shiver, Quake. Shudder, Quiver. We shiver with cold or a sensation like that of cold; we quake with fear; we shudder with horror. To quiver is to have a slight tremulous or fluttering motion: as, her lip quivered; to quiver in every nerve.
• Nautical, to cause to flutter or shake in the wind, as a sail by trimming the yards or shifting the helm so that the wind strikes on the edge of the sail.
• noun A tremulous, quivering motion; a shaking-or trembling-fit, especially from cold.
• noun Same as shive, 1.
• noun A broken bit; a splinter; a sliver; one of many small pieces or fragments such as are produced by a sudden and violent shock or blow. Also shive.
• noun 3. In mineralogy, a species of blue slate; schist; shale.
• noun Nautical, a sheave; the wheel of a pulley.
• noun A small wedge or key.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow.
• intransitive verb To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
• noun The act of shivering or trembling.
• intransitive verb To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
• noun One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
• noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A thin slice; a shive.
• noun (Geol.) A variety of blue slate.
• noun (Naut.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
• noun A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
• noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A spindle.
• transitive verb (Naut.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
• verb To break into splinters or fragments.
• verb To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
• noun The act or result of shivering.
• noun medicine A bodily response to early hypothermia (Wikipedia).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
• noun a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
• verb shake, as from cold
• verb tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement