Definition
• | One who quakes. |
• | 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. |
• | The nankeen bird. |
• | The sooty albatross. |
• | Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight. |