Definition of Quakir
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. (Zoöl.) (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 cærulea), with pretty four-
lobed corollas which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also
called bluets, and little innocents.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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