slovodefinícia
quaker
(encz)
quaker,kvaker n: přezdívka člena náboženské společnosti vzniklé v Anglii
a rozšířené i v USA, sami kvakeři se tak nenazývají sheeryjay
Quaker
(gcide)
Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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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quaker
(gcide)
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.
[1913 Webster]

2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
[1913 Webster]

3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton.
[1913 Webster]

Nankeen bird (Zool.), the Australian night heron
(Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.
[1913 Webster]
quaker
(wn)
Quaker
n 1: a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by
George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves
Quakers) [syn: Friend, Quaker]
2: one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear [syn:
quaker, trembler]
QUAKER
(bouvier)
QUAKERS. A sect of Christians.
2. Formerly they were much persecuted on account of their peaceable
principles which forbade them to bear arms, and they were denied many rights
because they refused to make corporal oath. They are relieved in a great
degree from the consequent penalties for refusing to bear arms; and their
affirmations are everywhere in the United States, as is believed, taken
instead of their oaths.

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quaker
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a rozšířené i v USA, sami kvakeři se tak nenazývají sheeryjay
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Quaker
(gcide)
Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]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.
[1913 Webster]

2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
[1913 Webster]

3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton.
[1913 Webster]

Nankeen bird (Zool.), the Australian night heron
(Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.
[1913 Webster]
quaker
(gcide)
Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]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.
[1913 Webster]

2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
[1913 Webster]

3. pl. Trousers made of nankeen. --Ld. Lytton.
[1913 Webster]

Nankeen bird (Zool.), the Australian night heron
(Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.
[1913 Webster]
Quaker buttons
(gcide)
Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
Quaker gun
(gcide)
Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
Quaker ladies
(gcide)
Quaker \Quak"er\, n.
1. One who quakes.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
Quakeress
(gcide)
Quakeress \Quak"er*ess\, n.
A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
[1913 Webster]
Quakerish
(gcide)
Quakerish \Quak"er*ish\, a.
Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
[1913 Webster]
Quakerism
(gcide)
Quakerism \Quak"er*ism\, n.
The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the
Quakers.
[1913 Webster]
Quakerlike
(gcide)
Quakerlike \Quak"er*like\, a.
Like a Quaker.
[1913 Webster]
Quakerly
(gcide)
Quakerly \Quak"er*ly\, a.
Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
Quakery
(gcide)
Quakery \Quak"er*y\, n.
Quakerism. [Obs.] --Hallywell.
[1913 Webster]
quaker
(wn)
Quaker
n 1: a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by
George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves
Quakers) [syn: Friend, Quaker]
2: one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear [syn:
quaker, trembler]
quaker gun
(wn)
Quaker gun
n 1: a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood
quakerism
(wn)
Quakerism
n 1: the theological doctrine of the Society of Friends
characterized by opposition to war and rejection of ritual
and a formal creed and an ordained ministry
quakers
(wn)
Quakers
n 1: a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly
called Quakers [syn: Religious Society of Friends,
Society of Friends, Quakers]

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