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One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A pancake for Shrove Tuesday." Shak.

Same as Parrakeet.

Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others. "Brutes partake in this faculty." Locke. When I against myself with thee partake. Shak.

One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark.

One who, or that which, makes a way or path.

One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.

One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance. Matt. v. 9. --Peace"mak`ing, n.

Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.

A playwright. [R.]

Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.

A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.

A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder; in the treatment of coal tar, the pressed product at various stages of the process; or, in beet-sugar manufacture, the vegetable residue after the sugar juice has been expressed.

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.

One who quakes.

A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.

Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.

The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.

Like a Quaker.