Word Meanings - TOTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
Additional info about word: TOTTER
1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Dryden.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOTTER)
- Reel
- Totter
- stagger
- falter
- Shake
- Agitate
- weaken
- oscillate
- totter
- convulse
- loosen
- tremble
- jar
- quiver
- shiver
- Tremble
- quake
- shudder
- vibrate
- Waver
- Hesitate
- dubitate
- halt
- fluctuate
- vacillate
- alternate
- scruple
- be undetermined
Related words: (words related to TOTTER)
- FALTER
To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell. - SHIVER-SPAR
A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar. - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - QUAKERLIKE
Like a Quaker. - WAVERER
One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak. - SCRUPLE
twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will - QUAKER
1. One who quakes. 2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4. Fox's teaching was - TOTTER
1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, - UNDETERMINABLE
Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke. - VIBRATE
brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, 1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff. 2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds. 3. To affect with - STAGGERWORT
A kind of ragwort . - FLUCTUATE
fluctus wave, fr. fluere, fluctum, to flow. See Fluent, and cf. 1. To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air. Blackmore. 2. To move now in one direction and - TREMBLE
1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; -- - ALTERNATENESS
The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns. - QUAKERISH
Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike. - STAGGER
1. To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter. Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow. Dryden. 2. To cease to stand firm; to begin to - LOOSEN
Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening - QUAKERESS
A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends. - WAVERINGLY
In a wavering manner. - UNDETERMINATION
Indetermination. Sir M. Hale. - DISSHIVER
To shiver or break in pieces. - WIND-SHAKEN
Shaken by the wind; specif. , - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - SUBALTERNATE
1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn. - ICEQUAKE
The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold. - TITTER-TOTTER
See TEETER - OVERSHAKE
To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer. - COWQUAKE
A genus of plants ; quaking grass.