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Quaker    音标拼音: [kw'ekɚ]
n. 教友派信徒

教友派信徒

Quaker
n 1: a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by
George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves
Quakers) [synonym: {Friend}, {Quaker}]
2: one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear [synonym:
{quaker}, {trembler}]

Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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{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}.
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Nankeen \Nan*keen"\, n. [So called from its being originally
manufactured at Nankin (Nanjing), 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.
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2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
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3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton.
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{Nankeen bird} (Zool.), the Australian night heron
({Nycticorax Caledonicus}); -- called also {quaker}.
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