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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
quaker \quak"er\, n.
1. one who quakes.
1913 webster
2. one of a religious sect founded by george fox, of
leicestershire, england, about 1650, -- the members of
which call themselves friends. they were called quakers,
originally, in derision. see friend, n., 4.
1913 webster
fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of
repentance . . . the trembling among the listening
crowd caused or confirmed the name of quakers given
to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
lay struggling as if for life. --encyc. brit.
1913 webster
3. zool.
a the nankeen bird.
b the sooty albatross.
c any grasshopper or locust of the genus edipoda; --
so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
1913 webster
quaker buttons. bot. see nux vomica.
quaker gun, a dummy cannon made of wood or other material;
-- so called because the sect of friends, or quakers, hold
to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
quaker ladies bot., a low american biennial plant
houstonia caerulea, with pretty four-lobed corollas
which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
called bluets, and little innocents.
1913 webster
see also:
fox friend edipoda quaker buttons nux vomica quaker gun
quaker ladies houstonia caerulea bluets little innocents
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