Word Meanings - QUEEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) woman; akin to OS. quan wife, woman, Icel. kvan wife, queen, Goth. 1.

Additional info about word: QUEEN

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. (more info) woman; akin to OS. quan wife, woman, Icel. kvan wife, queen, Goth. 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.

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• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• QUEENDOM
  The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• BEAR
  produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• QUEEN-POST
  One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
• EXCEPTANT
  Making exception.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• BEAR'S-EAR
  A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
• UNQUEEN
  To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• NOBLEWOMAN
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• BLUEBEARD
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• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.