QUEENINGS

Noun

queenings

plural of queening

Source: Wiktionary


QUEENING

Queen"ing, n. Etym: [See Queen apple.] (Bot.)

Definition: 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.

QUEEN

Queen, n. Etym: [OE. quen, quene, queen, quean, AS. cwen wife, queen, woman; akin to OS. quan wife, woman, Icel. kvan wife, queen, Goth. qens. sq. root221. See Quean.]

1. The wife of a king.

2. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots. In faith, and by the heaven's quene. Chaucer.

3. A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc. " This queen of cities." " Albion, queen of isles." Cowper.

4. The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.

Queen, v. i.

Definition: To act the part of a queen. Shak.

Queen, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Queened; p. pr. & vb. n. Queening.] (Chess.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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