W. Black.
Trem"bler (?), n. One who trembles.
Trem"bling (?), a. Shaking; tottering; quivering. — Trem"bling*ly, adv.
Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen.
||Tre*mel"la (?), n. [NL., fr. L. tremere, to tremble: cf. It.
||tremella, F. tremelle.] (Bot.) A genus of gelatinous fungi found in
||moist grounds.
||
Tre*men"dous (?), a. [L. tremendus that is to be trembled at, fearful,
fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.] Fitted to excite fear or terror;
such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence;
terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a
tremendous shock or fall.
A tremendous mischief was a foot.
Motley.
Syn. — Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible; awful.
— Tre*men"dous*ly, adv. — Tre*men"dous*ness, n.
||Tre"mex (?), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects
||allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she
||bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and
||the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.
||
The pigeon tremex (Tremex columba), a common American species, infests
the elm, pear, and other trees.
||Tre*mo*lan"do (?), a. [It.] (Mus.) Same as Tremando.
||
Trem"o*lite, n. [From Tremola, a valley in the Alps, where it was
discovered.] (Min.) A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende,
occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.
||Tre"mo*lo (?), n. [It. Cf. Tremulous.] (Mus.) (a) The rapid
||reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce
||a tremulous effect. (b) A certain contrivance in an organ, which
||causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a
||tremulous effect; — called also tremolant, and tremulant.
||
Tre"mor (?), n. [L., from tremere to tremble. See Tremble, v.] A
trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as,
the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.
He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints.
Harvey.
{ Trem"u*lant (?), Trem"u*lent (?), } a. Tremulous; trembling; shaking.
[R.] " With tremulent white rod." Carlyle.
Trem"u*lous (?), a. [L. tremulus, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.]
1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous
motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.