Quaker buttons
(also quaker's button) US
noun
(The seeds of) the nux vomica tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, from which strychnine is obtained.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Friends' Intelligencer.
- ball-breaker
- ball-breaking
- ball-buster
- ball-by-ball
- ball carrier
- ball cartridge
- ball catch
- ball clay
- ball club
- ballcock
- ball court
- ball doctoring
- baller
- ballerina
- ballerina shoe
- ballerino
- Ballesteros, Severiano
- ballet
- ballet blanc
- ballet bouffe
- ballet bouffon
- ballet d'action
- ballet dancer
- ballet flat
- balletic