Quaker

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One who quakes.

II. Quaker ·noun The nankeen bird.

III. Quaker ·noun The sooty albatross.

IV. Quaker ·noun Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda;

— so called from the quaking noise made during flight.

V. Quaker ·noun 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, ·noun, 4.

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