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Earthquake :: Earthquake (n.) 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, earthquave, and earthshock..

Icequake :: Icequake (n.) The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold..

Tremble :: Tremble (v. i.) To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal..

Disruption :: Disruption (n.) The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state..

Seismology :: Seismology (n.) The science of earthquakes.

Quakeress :: Quakeress (n.) A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.

Earthquake :: Earthquake (a.) Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; starling..

Seismography :: Seismography (n.) The art of registering the shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes.

Quakerly :: Quakerly (a.) Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish.

Quaked :: Quaked (imp. & p. p.) of Quak.

Nux Vomica :: Nux vomica () The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons..

Quaker :: Quaker (n.) 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..

Earthdin :: Earthdin (n.) An earthquake.

Seismal :: Seismal (a.) Of or pertaining to an earthquake; caused by an earthquake.

Thine :: Thine (pron. & a.) A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers..

Quook :: Quook () imp. of Quake.

Fleshquake :: Fleshquake (n.) A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver.

Dunker :: Dunker (n.) One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists..

Quake :: Quake (n.) A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

Quoke :: Quoke () imp. of Quake.

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