The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]