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ere, and were to be, the Puritan religionists. Palfrey. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.

To shake; to quake; to tremble. [Obs.] "It made all the gates for to rese." Chaucer.

to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter. A rising earthquake rocked the ground. Dryden.

g them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms.

A member of a monotheistic sect of Hindoos. Sadhs resemble the Quakers in many respects. Balfour (cyc. of India).

Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake. Seismic vertical, the point upon the earth's surface vertically over the center of effort or focal point whence the earthquake's impulse proceeds, or the vertical line connecting these two points.

An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.

The science of earthquakes.

An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.

The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coördinates of space.

To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. Under his burning wheels The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God. Milton. What danger Who 's that that shakes behind there Beau & FL. Shaking piece, a name given by butchers to the piece of be…

To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] Shak.

To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake. "With shuddering horror pale." Milton. The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith.

nd down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.

An earthquake. [Western U. S.]

An earthquake. [Obs.] Gower.

ning a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity. "Thunderclaps that make them quake." Spenser. When suddenly the thunderclap was heard. Dryden.

ve. (a) See Tide wave, under Tide. Cf. 4th Bore. (b) A vast, swift wave caused by an earthquake or some extraordinary combination of natural causes. It rises far above high-water mark and is often very destructive upon low-lying coasts.