Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter Q - Page 6
Queen (n.) The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
Queen (n.) (Chess) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
Queen (n.) A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
Queen apple. [Cf. OE. quyne aple quince apple.] A kind of apple; a queening. "Queen apples and red cherries." -- Spenser.
Queen bee (Zool.), A female bee, especially the female of the honeybee. See Honeybee.
Queen conch (Zool.), A very large West Indian cameo conch ({Cassis cameo). It is much used for making cameos.
Queen consort, The wife of a reigning king. -- Blackstone.
Queen dowager, The widow of a king.
Queen gold, Formerly a revenue of the queen consort of England, arising from gifts, fines, etc.
Queen mother, A queen dowager who is also mother of the reigning king or queen.
Queen of May. See May queen, under May.
Queen of the meadow (Bot.), a European herbaceous plant ({Spir[ae]a Ulmaria). See Meadowsweet.
Queen of the prairie (Bot.), An American herb ({Spir[ae]a lobata) with ample clusters of pale pink flowers.
Queen pigeon (Zool.), Any one of several species of very large and handsome crested ground pigeons of the genus Goura, native of New Guinea and the adjacent islands.
They are mostly pale blue, or ash-blue, marked with white, and have a large occipital crest of spatulate feathers.
Called also crowned pigeon, goura, and Victoria pigeon.
Queen regent, or Queen regnant, A queen reigning in her own right.
Queen's Bench. See King's Bench.
Queen's counsel, Queen's evidence. See King's counsel, King's evidence, under King.
Queen's delight (Bot.), An American plant ({Stillinqia sylvatica) of the Spurge family, having an herbaceous stem and a perennial woody root.
Queen's metal (Metal.), An alloy somewhat resembling pewter or britannia, and consisting essentially of tin with a slight admixture of antimony, bismuth, and lead or copper.
Queen's pigeon. (Zool.) Same as Queen pigeon, above.
Queen's ware, Glazed English earthenware of a cream color.
Queen's yellow (Old Chem.), A heavy yellow powder consisting of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- formerly called turpetum minerale, or Turbith's mineral.
Queen (n.) 【貶】同性戀男子 A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.
Queen (v. i.) To act the part of a queen. -- Shak.
Queened (imp. & p. p.) of Queen.
Queening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Queen.
Queen (v. i.) (Chess.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
Queen (n.) The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs.
Queen (n.) A female sovereign ruler [syn: queen, queen regnant, female monarch] [ant: Rex, king, male monarch].
Queen (n.) The wife or widow of a king.
Queen (n.) Something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners".
Queen (n.) A competitor who holds a preeminent position [syn: king, queen, world-beater].
Queen (n.) Offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf].
Queen (n.) One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen.
Queen (n.) (Chess)tThe most powerful piece.
Queen (n.) An especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males [syn: queen, queen mole rat].
Queen (n.) Female cat [syn: tabby, queen].
Queen (v.) Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess.
Queen (v.) Become a queen; "her pawn queened".
Queen, () No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the "queen of Sheba." The wives of the kings of Israel are not so designated. In Ps. 45:9, the Hebrew for "queen" is not _malkah_, one actually ruling like the Queen of Sheba, but _shegal_, which simply means the king's wife. In 1 Kings 11:19, Pharaoh's wife is called "the queen," but the Hebrew word so rendered (g'birah) is simply a title of honour, denoting a royal lady, used sometimes for "queen-mother" (1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chron. 15:16). In Cant. 6:8, 9, the king's wives are styled "queens" (Heb. melakhoth).
In the New Testament we read of the "queen of the south", i.e., Southern Arabia, Sheba (Matt. 12:42; Luke 11:31) and the "queen of the Ethiopians" (Acts 8:27), Candace.
QUEEN. () There are several kinds of queens in some countries. 1. Queen regnant, is a woman who possesses in her own right the executive power of the country.
QUEEN. () Queen consort, is the wife of a king.
QUEEN. () Queen dowager is the widow of a king. In the United States there is no one with this title.
QUEEN, (n.) A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
Queencraft (n.) Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen.
Elizabeth showed much queencraft in procuring the votes of the nobility. -- Fuller.
Queendom (n.) The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. -- Mrs. Browning.
Queenfish (n.) (Zool.) A
Queenfish (n.) Silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters [syn: white croaker, queenfish, Seriphus politus].
Queenhood (n.) The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness. -- Tennyson.
Queening (n.) (Bot.) Any one
of several kinds of apples, as summer queening, scarlet queening, and early
queening. An apple called the queening was cultivated in
Queenliness (n.) The quality of being queenly; the; characteristic of a queen; stateliness; eminence among women in attractions or power.
Queenly (a.) Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
Queen-post (n.) [Arch.] One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
Queenship (n.) The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.
Queensland nut () (Bot.) The nut of an Australian tree ({Macadamia ternifolia). It is about an inch in diameter, and contains a single round edible seed, or sometimes two hemispherical seeds. So called from Queensland in Australia.
Queen truss () (Arch.) A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.
Queer (a.) At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act. " A queer look." -- W. Irving.
Queer (a.) Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction. [Colloq.]
Queer (a.) homosexual. [disparaging and offensive]
Queer (n.) Counterfeit money. [Slang]
Queer (n.) A homosexual. [disparaging and offensive]
To shove the queer, to put counterfeit money in circulation. [Slang].
Queer (v. t.) [From Queer, a.] To puzzle. [Prov. Eng. or Slang]
Queer (v. t.) To ridicule; to banter; to rally. [Slang]
Queer (v. t.) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil. [Slang]
Queerish (a.) Rather queer; somewhat singular.
Queerly (adv.) In a queer or odd manner.
Queerness (n.) The quality or state of being queer.
Queest (n.) (Zool.) The European ringdove ({Columba palumbus); the cushat. [Written also quist, queeze, quice, queece.] See Ringdove.
Quegh (n.) A drinking vessel. See Quaich.
Quaigh, Quaich (n.) A small shallow cup or drinking vessel. [Scot.] [Written also quegh.]
Queint (a.) See Quaint. [Obs.]
Queint () Obs. imp. & p. p. of Quench. -- Chaucer.
Queintise (n.) See Quaintise. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Quelled (imp. & p. p.) of Quell.
Quelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quell.
Quell (v. i.) To die. [Obs.]
Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell. -- Spenser.
Quell (v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. [R.]
Winter's wrath begins to quell. -- Spenser.
Quell (v. t.) To take the life of; to kill. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
The ducks cried as [if] men would them quelle. -- Chaucer.
Quell (v. t.) To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority. -- Macaulay.
Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt. -- Longfellow.
Quell (v. t.) To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul.
Much did his words the gentle lady quell. -- Spenser.
Syn: to subdue; crush; overpower; reduce; put down; repress; suppress; quiet; allay; calm; pacify.
Quell
(n.)
Murder. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Queller (n.) A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller. [Obs.] --
Wyclif (Mark
vi. 27).
Queller (n.) One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.
Quellio (n.) A ruff for the neck. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Quelquechose (n.) A trifle; a kickshaw. -- Donne.
Queme (v. t. & i.) To please. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Quemeful (a.) Kindly; merciful. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Quenched (imp. & p. p.) of
Quench.
Quenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quench.
Quench (v. t.) To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.
Ere our blood shall quench that fire. -- Shak.
The supposition of the lady's death Will quench the wonder of her infamy. -- Shak.
Quench (v. t.) To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
Syn: To extinguish; still; stifle; allay; cool; check.
Quench (v. i.) To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool. [R.]
Dost thou think in time She will not quench! -- Shak.
Quenchable (a.) Capable of being quenched.
Quencher (n.) One who, or that which, quenches. -- Hammond.
Quenchless (a.) Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury. "Once kindled, quenchless evermore." -- Byron.
Syn: Inextinguishable; unquenchable. -- Quench"less*ly, adv. -- Quench"less*ness, n.
Quenelle (n.) [F.] (Cookery) A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.
Quenouille training () (Hort.) A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
Quercitannic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.
Quercite (n.) (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak ({Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.
Quercitin (n.) (Chem.) A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.
Quercitrin (n.) (Chem.) A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak ({Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron.
Quercitron (n.) The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.
Quercitron (n.) Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin.
Quercus (n.) (Bot.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.
Querele (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela. [Obs.] -- Ayliffe.
Querent (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A complainant; a plaintiff.
Querent (n.) An inquirer. [Obs.] -- Aubrey.
Querimonious (a.) Complaining; querulous; apt to complain. -- Quer`i*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Quer`i*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
Querimony (n.) A complaint or complaining. [Obs.] --E. Hall.
Querist (n.) One who inquires, or asks questions. -- Swift.
Querken (v. t.) To stifle or choke. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Querl (v. t.) To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope. [Local, U.S.]
Querl (n.) A coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse. [Local, U. S.]
Quern (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills. -- Shak.
They made him at the querne grind. -- Chaucer.
Querpo (n.) The inner or body garments taken together. See Cuerpo. -- Dryden.
Querquedule (n.) (Zool.) A teal.
Querquedule (n.) (Zool.) The pintail duck.
Querry (n.) A groom; an equerry. [Obs.]
Querulential (a.) Querulous. [R.]
Querulous (a.) Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. [Obs.] -- land.
Querulous (a.) Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people.
Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous, jealous, exacting fondness. -- Macaulay.
Querulous (a.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.
Syn: Complaining; bewailing; lamenting; whining; mourning; murmuring; discontented; dissatisfied. -- Quer"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Quer"u*lous*ness, n.
Queries (n. pl. ) of Query.
Query (n.) A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
I shall conclude with proposing only some queries, in order to a . . . search to be made by others. -- Sir I. Newton.
Query (n.) A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.
Query (n.) An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.
Query (v. i.) To ask questions; to make inquiry.
Each prompt to query, answer, and debate. -- Pope.
Query (v. i.) To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.
Queried (imp. & p. p.) of Query.
Querying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Query.
Query (v. t.) To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.
Query (v. t.) To address questions to; to examine by questions.
Query (v. t.) To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.
Query (v. t.) To write " query" (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.
Quesal (n.) (Zool.) The long-tailed, or resplendent, trogon ({Pharomachus mocinno, formerly Trogon resplendens), native of Southern Mexico and Central America. Called also quetzal, and golden trogon.
Note: The male is remarkable for the brilliant metallic green and gold colors of his plumage, and for his extremely long plumes, which often exceed three feet in length.
Quest (n.) The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
Upon an hard adventure yet in quest. -- Spenser.
Cease your quest of love. -- Shak.
There ended was his quest, there ceased his care. -- Milton.
Quest (n.) Request; desire; solicitation.
Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. -- Herbert.
Quest (n.) Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out. -- Shak.
Quest (n.) Inquest; jury of inquest.
What lawful quest have given their verdict ? -- Shak.
Quest (v. t.) To search for; to examine. [R.] -- Sir T. Herbert.
Quest (v. i.) To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg. [R.]
If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. -- Macaulay.
Questant (n.) One who undertakes a quest; a seeker. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Quester (n.) One who seeks; a seeker. [Obs.]