- 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.
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