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quaker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nankeen \Nan*keen"\, n. [So called from its being originally manufactured at Nankin (Nanjing), in China.] [Written also nankin.]
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.
An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
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pl. Trousers made of nankeen.
--Ld. Lytton.Nankeen bird (Zo["o]l.), the Australian night heron ( Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1651, said to have been applied to them in 1650 by Justice Bennett at Derby, from George Fox's admonition to his followers to "tremble at the Word of the Lord;" but the word was used earlier of foreign sects given to fits of shaking during religious fervor, and that is likely the source here. Either way, it never was an official name of the Religious Society of Friends. The word in a literal sense is attested from early 15c., an agent noun from quake (v.).\n\nThere is not a word in the Scripture, to put David's condition into rime and meeter: sometimes he quaked and trembled, and lay roaring all the day long, that he watered his bed with his tears: and how can you sing these conditions (but dishonour the Lord) and say all your bones quake, your flesh trembled, and that you water your bed with your tears? when you live in pride and haughtiness, and pleasure, and wantonness;" etc. ["A Brief Discovery of a threefold estate of Antichrist Now Extant in the world, etc.," an early Quaker work, London, 1653] \n\nQuaker gun (1809, American English) was a log painted black and propped up to look from a distance like a cannon, so called for the sect's noted pacifism. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been known as the Quaker City since at least 1824. Related: Quakerish; Quakeress ("a female Quaker"); Quakerism.
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Quaker is a reference to the Religious Society of Friends, a faith-based community.
Quaker could also refer to:
People- The Quaker Poet, a nickname for John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), and sometimes also for Bernard Barton (1784-1849)
- see List of Quakers
- The Quaker State, a nickname for Pennsylvania
- Quaker, Indiana (or Quaker Point), a small town in Vermillion County, Indiana
- Quakers Hill, New South Wales, a suburb in Sydney, Australia
- Quaker Oats Company, a U.S. food company
- Quaker State Corporation, a former motor oil manufacturer
- Quaker butterfly, Neopithecops zalmora
- Quaker parrot, also known as the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)
- Quaker lady (disambiguation), name given to several flowers
- Philadelphia Quakers (NHL)
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of Earlham College
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of Guilford College
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of Salem, Ohio
- Quakers, the nickname for the athletic teams of Orchard Park, NY
- Quakers, the nickname of Darlington F.C. in the north of England and many other businesses in Darlington
- An unripe or poorly roasted coffee bean, the number of which is often used to judge the quality of a batch of coffee, see coffee roasting
- An Ecuadorian beverage, made from oats (hence the name, a reference to the Quaker Oats Company), fruit juice (typically naranjilla, pineapple, or orange), sugar and spices
- A player of the video game Quake.
Usage examples of "quaker".
The Quakers have been celebrated for the pertinacity with which they avoid giving a direct answer, but what Quaker could ever vie with a Yankee in this sort of fencing?
Peggy Shippen was a delightful, fun-loving girl from an old Quaker family when she met the man assigned as American military commander in Philadelphia, Benedict Arnold.
In numbers, if not in influence, Presbyterians and Baptists had long since surpassed the Quakers of the Quaker City.
He is a frequent and faithful and capable officer in the civil service, but he is charged with an unpatriotic disinclination to stand by the flag as a soldier--like the Christian Quaker.
Quakers in the abolition of slavery both in England and America, especially the life-long work of John Woolman in the colonies, is well known.
Quakers, or might have friends among the antislavery groups, led by such people as Woolman and Anthony Benezet, and Ben Franklin.
West Jersey near Mount Holly was born and lived John Woolman, a Quaker who became eminent throughout the English speaking world for the simplicity and loftiness of his religious thought as well as for his admirable style of expression.
As a Quaker and ardent Republican, Logan was not the sort of man Adams was known to favor.
Leo had only been the department manager for a week and a half when he accused Blackburn of stealing a case of Quaker State 10W-30 Multi-Viscosity Motor Oil.
He even crossed to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake to visit a Quaker meeting on the Choptank before winter set in, and he describes the immense migration of wild pigeons at that season, and the ducks which flew so low and were so tame that the colonists knocked them down with sticks.
Lo by tendering him one-half his money in government bonds, and for this great wrong the peaceable Quaker, the humanitarian Unitarian, the orthodox Congregationalist and Presbyterian, the enthusiastic Methodist and staid Baptist, felt it but right Mr.
And when teacher John read from the writings of George Fox, the founder of their Quaker faith, it seemed to Dolley that his long, lean finger was pointing straight at her.
As if, thought Dolley, his old friends wanted to atone for an action that their Quaker consciences had not quite been able to reconcile with the promptings of the Inner Light.
William Thornton, the city district commissioner, a Quaker whom Dolley had known in Philadelphia.
Still loyal to her Quaker traditions, Dolley did not participate in the dancing, but she did enjoy playing cards.