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| | | | | | Quake | v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Quaked p. pr. & vb. n. Quaking. ] [ AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. Quagmire. ] 1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. “Quaking for dread.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. “ Over quaking bogs.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Quake | n. 1. A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. An earthquake.
Syn. -- earthquake; tremor; temblor. [ PJC ] | | Quake | v. t. [ Cf. AS. cweccan to move, shake. See Quake, v. t. ] To cause to quake. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Quaker | n. 1. One who quakes. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Zool.) (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. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Quakeress | n. A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Quakerish | a. Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Quakerism | n. The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Quakerlike | a. Like a Quaker. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Quakerly | a. Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Quakery | n. Quakerism. [ Obs. ] Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| | quaker | (n) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear, Syn. trembler | | quaker gun | (n) a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood | | quakerism | (n) the theological doctrine of the Society of Friends characterized by opposition to war and rejection of ritual and a formal creed and an ordained ministry |
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