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Quaker 音标拼音: [kw'ekɚ] n. 教友派信徒 教友派信徒 Quaker n 1: a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox ( the Friends have never called themselves Quakers) [ synonym: { Friend}, { Quaker}] 2: one who quakes and trembles with ( or as with) fear [ synonym: { quaker}, { trembler}] 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] |
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