Quaker

Quaker - Other Definitions

• (n.) One who quakes.
  
  
• (n.) 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.
  
  
• (n.) The nankeen bird.
  
  
• (n.) The sooty albatross.
  
  
• (n.) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
  
  
• (a.) Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish.