Word Meanings - QUEENDOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• QUEENDOM
  The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.
• QUEEN-POST
  One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• QUEENFISH
  A California sciænoid food fish . The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• QUEENING
  Any one of several kinds of apples, as summer queening, scarlet queening, and early queening. An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.
• BROWNISM
  The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.
• BROWNY
  Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
• DOMINION
  A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3. Milton. By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Col. i. 16. Syn. -- Sovereignty; control; rule; authority;
• QUEENLY
  Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
• QUEEN TRUSS
  A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.
• BROWNIAN
  Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
• UNQUEEN
  To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONDITIONAL
  Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
• UNCONDITIONED
  Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• IMBROWN
  To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.