TREMBLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trembles mean? 

• TREMBLES (noun)
  The noun TREMBLES has 1 sense:

1. disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot

  Familiarity information: TREMBLES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREMBLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

milk sickness; trembles

Hypernyms ("trembles" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

 Context examples 

"His hand trembles," Ruth was confessing, her face, for shame's sake, still buried.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“The subsistence of my family, ma'am,” returned Mr. Micawber, “trembles in the balance. My employer—”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His hand trembles, his speech is not plain, and his eyes look wild.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Agnes has my confidence completely, always; I tell her all about the butcher, and the wrongs he has heaped upon me; she thinks I couldn't have done otherwise than fight the butcher, while she shrinks and trembles at my having fought him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)