Obs. [f. next.] A shake, tremble.
1382, etc. [see EARTH-QUAVE].
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 419/2. Quaue, of a myre (K., P. quaue, as of a myre), labina.
1635. Swan, Spec. M. (1670), 196. A quave of the earth swallowed a middle part of the city Misia.
