Quaker

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A member of the Society of Friends.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A Philadelphian or Pennsylvanian: from the historical association of Quakers with that city and that State.
• noun One who quakes or trembles.
• noun [capitalized] One of the religious denomination called the Society of Friends.
• noun A Quaker gun (which see, under gun).
• noun In entomology, one of certain noctuid moths: an English collectors' name. Agrotis castanea is the common quaker, and Mamestra nana is the small quaker. Also quaker-moth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who quakes.
• noun 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.
• noun The nankeen bird.
• noun The sooty albatross.
• noun Any grasshopper or locust of the genus Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
• noun (Bot.) See Nux vomica.
• noun a dummy cannon made of wood or other material; -- so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
• noun (Bot.) a low American biennial plant (Houstonia cærulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also called bluets, and little innocents.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun religion A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear
• noun a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)