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See qued. queen (kwēn), n. [ Thursdaye, the laste daye of Apryll, to Lasheles, where lyethe quene Elyanour of Englonde, and in an abbey of her awne foundacyon. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 4. I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen . Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 3. 117. 2. A woman who is the sovereign of a realm; a female sovereign. In countries under monarchical rule females are sometimes excluded from the throne, and seldom if ever succeed in direct lineal descent. In the line of succe ion to the British throne the eldest son of the sovereign is the heir, to the exclusion of older sisters; but a daughter who has no brothers succeeds, to the exclusion of younger brothers of her father or their male descendants. The exceptionally long reign of Queen Victoria (who succeeded in right of her deceased father, the Duke of Kent, to the exclusion of his younger brothers) has familiarized English-speaking communities of the present day with the form queen's instead of king's in such phrases as queen's counsel, the queen's English, etc. Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia, Absolute queen . Shak ., A. and C., iii. 6. 11. Now what I am ye know right well - your Queen , To whom ye did promise full Allegiance and obedience to the death. Tennyson, Queen Mary, ii. 2. IMG:content-1462.png:[blocks in formation] Show this queen of cities that so fair May yet be foul. Cowper , Task, i. 727. Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was queen of land and sea. Domett , Christmas Hymn. 5. In entom ., a queen bee or queen ant.-6. A playing-card on which a queen is depicted. The knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (oh shameful chance!) the Queen of Hearts. Pope , R. of the L., iii. 88. 7. In che , the piece which is by far the most powerful of all for attack. See che 1. Abbreviated Q.-8. A variety of roofing-slate, measuring 3 feet long and 2 feet wide. Compare duche , 2.-Court of Queen's Bench. See Court of King's Bench, under court. - Dollar queen, in apiculture, an untested queen bee, bred from a purely bred mother that has mated with one of her own race: so called because the standard price was supposed to be one dollar. The price of dollar queens, however, varies from 75 cents to $2. Phin, Dict. of Apiculture, p. 57. - Keeper of the Queen's prison. See Marshal of the King's (or Queen's ) Bench, under marshal. - Marshal of the queen's household. See marshal. - Problem of the queens. See problem. - Queen Anne's bounty. See bounty.-Queen Anne style, in arch., the style which obtained in England in the early part of the eighteenth century, and produced many commodious and dignified buildings, particularly in domestic architecture; also, specifically, a nondescript style purporting to follow the queenfish above, and reproducing some of the exterior forms and ornaments of the original, much in vogue in the United States, especially for suburban cottages, from about 1880. Queen bee. See bee. Queen closer. See closerl (b). Queen consort. See consort1. - Queen dowager, the widow of a deceased king. - Queen mother, a queen dowager who is also mother of the reigning sovereign.Queen of heaven. (a) A title often given to the godde Astarte or Ashtoreth. The women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven , that they may provoke me to anger. Jer. vii. 18. IMG:content-1463.png:[blocks in formation] (b) Among Roman Catholics, a title given to the Virgin Mary.- Queen of the May, a young girl crowned with flowers and enthroned as the central figure of the May-day sports. - Queen regent, queen regnant, a queen who holds the crown in her own right, or a queen who reigns as regent.- Queen's advocate. Same as lord advocate (which see, under advocate ). - Queen's color, in the British army, one of the pair of colors belonging to every regiment. In the line it is a union jack charged with some regimental devices; in the Guards it is a crimson flag, sometimes having the jack in the dexter chief, but always having the royal cipher and regimental devices. See color , and a pair of colors , under pair1 . Boutell , English counsel , etc. Cen's Covidenceng's evidence, Heraldry.- Queen's enemy, gambit. See under evidence. - Queen's gap, a gap in a dam, a style of fishway used in British waters. It has been occasionally used in America for alewives. In low dams it answers well for salmon. - Queen's herbt, snuff: so called (in the latter part of the sixteenth century) because Catharine de' Medici acquired a taste for it soon after the introduction of tobacco into France. - Queen's keys. See keyl . - Queen's me enger. See me enger. - The queen's English. See English . The queen's peace. See peace . queen1 (kwēn), v. [ queen1 , n.] I. in trans . To play the queen; act the part or character of a queen; domineer: with an indefinite it . A three-pence bow'd would hire me, Old as I am, to queen it . Shak., Hen. VIII., ii. 3. 37. Xerxes went out of his way with his army to do homage to the great plane-tree that queened it in the desert alone. P. Robinson , Under the Sun, p. 85. II. trans. 1. In che , to make a queen of: said of a pawn on its reaching the eighth square. -2. In apiculture , to supply with a queen; introduce a queen to: said of a colony of bees. Phin , Dict. of Apiculture, p. 57. queen2 (kwen), n . Same as quin . In England one hears such names for scallops as "fan shells," " frills," or " queens " in South Devon, according to Montagu; and on the Dorset coast the fishermen call them "squinns." Fisheries of U. S. , V. ii. 565. queen-apple (kwēnʼap"l), n. A variety of apple. The queen - apple is of the summer kind, and a good cider apple mixed with others. Mortimer , Husbandry. queen-cell (kwēn's el), n. The cell of a honeycomb destined for a queen or female larva. It is larger than the other cells, and generally placed on the edge of the comb, and is said to be provisioned with richer food, the so-called royal jelly.