Word Meanings - QUEENCRAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen. Elizabeth showed much queencraft in procuring the votes of the nobility. Fuller.

Related words: (words related to QUEENCRAFT)

• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• PROCURATORSHIP
  The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.
• NOBILITY
  1. The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence. Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it. Sir P. Sidney. They thought it great their sovereign to
• PROCURATORY
  Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• SKILLIGALEE
  A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
• QUEENDOM
  The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• PROCURACY
  1. The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another. 2. Authority to act for another; a proxy.
• QUEEN-POST
  One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
• CRAFTLESS
  Without craft or cunning. Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor.
• SHOWING
  1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• CRAFTINESS
  Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.
• SHOWMAN
  One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
• QUEENFISH
  A California sciænoid food fish . The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.
• UNQUEEN
  To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• IMPOLICY
  The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
• MISPOLICY
  Wrong policy; impolicy.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• RAREE-SHOW
  A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
• WITCRAFT
  1. Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. Camden. 2. The art of reasoning; logic.
• PENCRAFT
  1. Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography. 2. The art of composing or writing; authorship. I would not give a groat for that person's knowledge in pencraft. S