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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bluets \Blu"ets\, n. [F. bluet, bleuet, dim. of bleu blue. See
     {Blue}, a.] (Bot.)
     A name given to several different species of plants having
     blue flowers, as the {Houstonia c[oe]rulea}, the {Centaurea
     cyanus} or bluebottle, and the {Vaccinium angustifolium}.
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