Definition of Quen
Queen (?), n. [OE. quen,
quene, queen, quean, AS. cwēn wife, queen, woman;
akin to OS. quān wife, woman, Icel. kvān
wife, queen, Goth. qēns. √221. See Quean.]
1. The wife of a king.
2. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom;
a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary,
queen of Scots.
In faith, and by the heaven's
quene. Chaucer.
3. A woman eminent in power or attractions;
the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used
figuratively of cities, countries, etc. " This queen of
cities." " Albion, queen of isles." Cowper.
4. The fertile, or fully developed, female of
social bees, ants, and termites.
5. (Chess) The most powerful, and
except the king the most important, piece in a set of
chessmen.
6. 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
(Zoöl.), a female bee, especially the female of the
honeybee. See Honeybee. -- Queen conch
(Zoöl.), 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 (Spiræa Ulmaria). See
Meadowsweet. -- Queen of the prairie
(Bot.), an American herb (Spiræa lobata) with
ample clusters of pale pink flowers. -- Queen
pigeon (Zoöl.), 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. (Zoöl.) 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, v. i. To act the part of a
queen. Shak.
Queen, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Queened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Queening.] (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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- A female monarch. Ex: Queen Victoria
- (chess) Piece able to move both horizontally and diagonally any number of spaces; most powerful piece.
- (playing_cards) Playing card with picture of queen on its face, 12th card in a given suit.
- A powerful or forceful female person.
- Slang. A male homosexual who is particularly effeminate. See Drag queen.
- A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp
- An adult female cat. See tom.
- in chess, to convert a pawn into a queen
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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