Queen (n.) The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
Queen (n.) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
Queen (n.) A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
Queen (n.) A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.
Queen (v. i.) To act the part of a queen.
Queened (imp. & p. p.) of Queen
Queening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Queen
Queen (v. i.) 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.
Queencraft (n.) Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen.
Queendom (n.) The dominion, condition, or character of a queen.
Queenfish (n.) A California sciaenoid food fish (Seriphys politus). The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.
Queenhood (n.) The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness.
Queening (n.) 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.
Queenliness (n.) The quality of being queenly; the; characteristic of a queen; stateliness; eminence among women in attractions or power.
Queenly (a.) Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
Oueen-post (n.) One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
Queenship (n.) The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.
Queensland nut () The nut of an Australian tree (Macadamia ternifolia). 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.
Queen truss () A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.
Queer (a.) At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.
Queer (a.) Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction.
Queer (n.) Counterfeit money.
Queerish (a.) Rather queer; somewhat singular.
Queerly (adv.) In a queer or odd manner.
Queerness (n.) The quality or state of being queer.
Queest (n.) The European ringdove (Columba palumbus); the cushat.
Quegh (n.) A drinking vessel. See Quaich.
Queint (a.) See Quaint.
Queint () imp. & p. p. of Quench.
Queintise (n.) See Quaintise.
Quelled (imp. & p. p.) of Quell
Quelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quell
Quell (v. i.) To die.
Quell (v. i.) To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.
Quell (v. t.) To take the life of; to kill.
Quell (v. t.) To overpower; to subdue; to put down.
Quell (v. t.) To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul.
Quell (n.) Murder.
Queller (n.) A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller.
Queller (n.) One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.
Quellio (n.) A ruff for the neck.
Quelquechose (n.) A trifle; a kickshaw.
Queme (v. t. & i.) To please.
Quemeful (a.) Kindly; merciful.
Quenched (imp. & p. p.) of Quench
Quenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quench
Quench (v. t.) To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.
Quench (v. t.) To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
Quench (v. i.) To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.
Quenchable (a.) Capable of being quenched.
Quencher (n.) One who, or that which, quenches.
Quenchless (a.) Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury.
Quenelle (n.) A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.
Quenouille training () A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
Quercitannic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.
Quercite (n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.
Quercitin (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.
Quercitrin (n.) A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron.
Quercitron (n.) The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.
Quercitron (n.) Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin.
Quercus (n.) A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.
Querele (n.) A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela.
Querent (n.) A complainant; a plaintiff.
Querent (n.) An inquirer.
Quermonious (a.) Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.
Querimony (n.) A complaint or complaining.
Querist (n.) One who inquires, or asks questions.
Querken (v. t.) To stifle or choke.
Querl (v. t.) To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope.
Querl (n.) A coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse.
Quern (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.
Querpo (n.) The inner or body garments taken together. See Cuerpo.
Querquedule (n.) A teal.
Querquedule (n.) The pintail duck.
Querry (n.) A groom; an equerry.
Querulential (a.) Querulous.
Querulous (v.) Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.
Querulous (v.) Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people.
Querulous (v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.
Queries (pl. ) of Query
Query (n.) A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
Query (n.) A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.
Query (n.) An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.
Query (v. i.) To ask questions; to make inquiry.
Query (v. i.) To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.
Queried (imp. & p. p.) of Query
Querying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Query
Query (v. t.) To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.
Query (v. t.) To address questions to; to examine by questions.
Query (v. t.) To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.
Query (v. t.) To write " query" (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.
Quesal (n.) The long-tailed, or resplendent, trogon (Pharomachus mocinno, formerly Trogon resplendens), native of Southern Mexico and Central America. Called also quetzal, and golden trogon.
Quest (n.) The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
Quest (n.) Request; desire; solicitation.
Quest (n.) Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
Quest (n.) Inquest; jury of inquest.
Quest (n.) To search for; to examine.
Quest (v. i.) To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.
Questant (n.) One who undertakes a quest; a seeker.
Quester (n.) One who seeks; a seeker.