2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion
of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. " Over quaking bogs." Macaulay.
Quake
(Quake), v. t. [Cf. AS. cweccan to move, shake. See Quake, v. t.] To cause to quake. [Obs.]
Shak.
Quake
(Quake), n. A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
Quaker
(Quak"er) n.
1. One who quakes.
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.
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. 3. (Zoöl.) (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.
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 with pretty four- lobed corollas which are pale blue
with a yellowish center; — also called bluets, and little innocents.
