Quä'k'er, n.

n. 1. One who quakes. 2. One of the religious sect the members of which are called also Friends. The violent enthusiasm of this sect, like all high passions, being too strong for the weak nerves to sustain, threw the preachers into convulsions, and shakings, and distortions of limbs; and they thence received the appellation of Quakers. George Fox, born at Drayton in Lancashire, in 1624, was founder of this sect. Hume.