Word Meanings - QUAKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.

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• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• QUAKER
  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
• QUAKERISH
  Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
• SHAKY
  1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
• QUAKY
  Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.
• QUAKERESS
  A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
• QUAKING
  a. & n. from Quake, v. Quaking aspen , an American species of poplar , the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen. -- Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water
• QUAKERY
  Quakerism. Hallywell.
• QUAKERISM
  The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.
• QUAKETAIL
  A wagtail.
• QUAKERLY
  Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish. Macaulay.
• QUAKINESS
  The state of being quaky; liability to quake.
• QUAKE
  1. To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. Quaking for dread." Chaucer. She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To
• QUAKINGLY
  In a quaking manner; fearfully. Sir P. Sidney.
• TREMULOUS
  1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar. 2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling. The tender, tremulous Christian. Dr. H. More. -- Trem"u*lous*ly,
• ICEQUAKE
  The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.
• COWQUAKE
  A genus of plants ; quaking grass.
• SEAQUAKE
  A quaking of the sea.
• EARTHQUAKE
  A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin,
• HEARTQUAKE
  Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear. In many an hour of danger and heartquake. Hawthorne.
• FLESHQUAKE
  A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. B. Jonson.