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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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(encz) | quakers,osoba třesoucí se strachem Zdeněk BrožQuakers,kvakeři n: sekta, Náboženská Společnost Přátel (založená George
Foxem okolo 1660) 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.
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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.
[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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Quakerish
(gcide) | Quakerish \Quak"er*ish\, a.
Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
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Quakerism
(gcide) | Quakerism \Quak"er*ism\, n.
The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the
Quakers.
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Quakerlike
(gcide) | Quakerlike \Quak"er*like\, a.
Like a Quaker.
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Quakerly
(gcide) | Quakerly \Quak"er*ly\, a.
Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish. --Macaulay.
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Quakery
(gcide) | Quakery \Quak"er*y\, n.
Quakerism. [Obs.] --Hallywell.
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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] |
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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