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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUA'KER, n. One that quakes; but usually, one of the religious sect called friends. This name, quakers, is said to have been given to the sect in reproach, an account of some agitations which distinguished them; but it is no longer appropriated to them by way of reproach.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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: quaker, trembler]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1597 1. one that quakes 2. capitalized friend 5 • Quakerish adjective • Quakerism noun • Quakerly adjective

Merriam Webster's

noun see friend I

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a member of the Society of Friends, a Christian movement devoted to peaceful principles and eschewing formal doctrine, sacraments, and ordained ministers. Derivatives: Quakerish adj. Quakerism n. Etymology: QUAKE + -ER(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(Quakers) A Quaker is a person who belongs to a Christian group called the Society of Friends. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Friend.