Quaverer


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Qua´ver`er


n.1.One who quavers; a warbler.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Some of these gallant Spirits have been confined all their life times, untill their dissolution; others weary of detention, have broken Prison, and flew in the very Noses of them they next met, and changing their names, but not their conditions, passe for the Rowsers, the Tearers, the Ratlers, the Quaverers, the Whizzers, the Fuzzers, the Squeekers; according to the severall eruptions of the Winds, out of AEolus his den, which is the grand Colon or hole of those imprisoned Spirits.
Some of these gallant Spirits have been confined all their life times, until] their dissolution; others weary of detention, have broken Prison, and flew in the very Noses of them they next met, and changing their names, but not their conditions, passe for the Rowsers, the Tearers, the Ratlers, the Quaverers, the VVhizzers, the Fuzzers, the Squeekers; according to the severall eruptions of the Winds, out of AEolus his den, which is the grand Colon or hole of those imprisoned Spirits.