■ verb (of a voice) tremble.
■ noun
1》 a tremble in a voice.
2》 Music, chiefly Brit. a note having the value of an eighth of a semibreve or half a crotchet, represented by a large dot with a hooked stem.
Derivatives
~ing adjective
~ingly adverb
~y adjective
Origin
ME: from dialect quave 'quake, tremble', prob. from an OE word related to quake .