Word Meanings - QUEENLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.

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• QUEENDOM
  The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• QUEEN-POST
  One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
• QUEENFISH
  A California sciænoid food fish . The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.
• 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.
• QUEENLY
  Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
• QUEEN TRUSS
  A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• QUEENSHIP
  The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.
• 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.
• QUEENLINESS
  The quality of being queenly; the; characteristic of a queen; stateliness; eminence among women in attractions or power.
• QUEENHOOD
  The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness. Tennyson.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• QUEEN OLIVE
  Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit; it is cured when green, keeps well, and has a delicate flavor. Loosely, any olive of similar character.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• SUITABLE
  Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
• QUEENSLAND NUT
  The nut of an Australian tree . 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.
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• QUEENCRAFT
  Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen. Elizabeth showed much queencraft in procuring the votes of the nobility. Fuller.
• UNQUEEN
  To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
• DEQUEEN
  To remove the queen from .
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.