About The Word Quaker
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Quaker
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What's The Definition Of Quaker?
[n] a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
[n] one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear Synonyms | Synonyms for Quaker: Friend | trembler Related Terms | Find terms related to Quaker: See Also | Christian | coward | Penn | Quakers | Religious Society of Friends | Society of Friends | William Penn Quaker In Webster's Dictionary \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
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.
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.
3. (Zo["o]l.)
(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.
{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 c[ae]rulea}), with pretty four-lobed corollas
which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
called {bluets}, and {little innocents}.
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