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Quaker - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Quaker : (noun)
1: a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by
George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves
Quakers) [syn: Friend, Quaker]
2: one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear [syn: trembler]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Nankeen \Nan*keen"\, n. [So called from its being originally
manufactured at Nankin, in China.] [Written also nankin.]
1. A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought
from China, made of a species of cotton ({Gossypium
religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color
quite indestructible and permanent.
2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton.
Nankeen bird (Zo["o]l.), the Australian night heron
({Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Quaker : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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QUAKERS. A sect of Christians.
2. Formerly they were much persecuted on account of their peaceable
principles which forbade them to bear arms, and they were denied many rights
because they refused to make corporal oath. They are relieved in a great
degree from the consequent penalties for refusing to bear arms; and their
affirmations are everywhere in the United States, as is believed, taken
instead of their oaths.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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