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quaker |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Quaker n : a member of the Religious Society of Friends [syn: {Quaker}, {Friend}]
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