[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

queen \queen\, n. oe. quen, quene, queen, quean, as. cw=en
   wife, queen, woman; akin to os. qu=an wife, woman, icel.
   kv=an wife, queen, goth. q=ens. root221. see quean.
   1. the wife of a king.
      1913 webster

   2. a woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female
      monarch; as, elizabeth, queen of england; mary, queen of
      scots.
      1913 webster

            in faith, and by the heaven's quene.  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   4. the fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees,
      ants, and termites.
      1913 webster

   5. chess the most powerful, and except the king the most
      important, piece in a set of chessmen.
      1913 webster

   6. a playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the
      queen of spades.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster

   queen apple. cf. oe. quyne aple quince apple. a kind of
      apple; a queening. "queen apples and red cherries."
      --spenser.

   queen bee zool., a female bee, especially the female of
      the honeybee. see honeybee.

   queen conch zool., a very large west indian cameo conch
      cassis cameo. it is much used for making cameos.

   queen consort, the wife of a reigning king. --blackstone.

   queen dowager, the widow of a king.

   queen gold, formerly a revenue of the queen consort of
      england, arising from gifts, fines, etc.

   queen mother, a queen dowager who is also mother of the
      reigning king or queen.

   queen of may. see may queen, under may.

   queen of the meadow bot., a european herbaceous plant
      spiraea ulmaria. see meadowsweet.

   queen of the prairie bot., an american herb spiraea
      lobata with ample clusters of pale pink flowers.

   queen pigeon zool., any one of several species of very
      large and handsome crested ground pigeons of the genus
      goura, native of new guinea and the adjacent islands.
      they are mostly pale blue, or ash-blue, marked with white,
      and have a large occipital crest of spatulate feathers.
      called also crowned pigeon, goura, and victoria
      pigeon.

   queen regent, or queen regnant, a queen reigning in her
      own right.

   queen's bench. see king's bench.

   queen's counsel, queen's evidence. see king's counsel,
      king's evidence, under king.

   queen's delight bot., an american plant stillinqia
      sylvatica of the spurge family, having an herbaceous
      stem and a perennial woody root.

   queen's metal metal., an alloy somewhat resembling pewter
      or britannia, and consisting essentially of tin with a
      slight admixture of antimony, bismuth, and lead or copper.
      

   queen's pigeon. zool. same as queen pigeon, above.

   queen's ware, glazed english earthenware of a cream color.
      

   queen's yellow old chem., a heavy yellow powder
      consisting of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- formerly
      called turpetum minerale, or turbith's mineral.
      1913 webster
see also:
quean queen apple queen bee honeybee queen conch cassis cameo 
queen consort queen dowager queen gold queen mother queen of may 
may queen may queen of the meadow spiraea ulmaria meadowsweet 
queen of the prairie spiraea lobata queen pigeon goura crowned pigeon 
goura victoria pigeon queen regent queen regnant queen's bench 
king's bench queen's counsel queen's evidence king's counsel king's evidence 
king queen's delight stillinqia sylvatica queen's metal queen's pigeon 
queen's ware queen's yellow turpetum minerale turbith's mineral 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

queen \queen\, v. i. imp.  p. p. queened; p. pr.  vb. n.
   queening. chess.
   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.
   1913 webster
see also:
queened queening 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

queen \queen\, v. i.
   to act the part of a queen. --shak.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

queen
     n 1: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such
          as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay
          eggs
     2: a female sovereign ruler syn: queen regnant, female
        monarch ant: king, king
     3: the wife or widow of a king
     4: something personified as a woman who is considered the best
        or most important of her kind; "paris is the queen of
        cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
     5: a competitor who holds a preeminent position syn: king, world-beater
     6: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man syn: fagot,
        faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queer, poof,
         poove, pouf
     7: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a
        queen
     8: chess the most powerful piece
     9: especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole
        rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
     10: female cat syn: tabby
     v 1: promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
     2: become a queen; "her pawn queened"
see also:
queen regnant female monarch king world-beater fagot faggot 
fag fairy nance pansy queer 
poof poove pouf tabby 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

148 moby thesaurus words for "queen":
   kaiserin, ace, ant, army ant, auntie, beauty queen, bee, begum,
   best bower, bi-guy, bisexual, bishop, black ant, bower, bull dyke,
   bumblebee, butch, cards, carpenter ant, castle, catamite, champion,
   chessman, chicken, choice, chosen, clubs, cream, crown princess,
   cynosure, czarina, deck, deuce, diamonds, diva, drone, dummy, dyke,
   elect, elite, emmet, empress, epitome, face cards, fag, faggot,
   fairy, fat, femme, fire ant, flit, flower, flush, fricatrice,
   fruit, full house, grand duchess, gunsel, hand, hearts, homo,
   homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, honeybee, hornet, house ant,
   idol, infanta, invert, jack, joker, king, knave, knight, kumari,
   kunwari, leader, leading light, left bower, lesbian, maharani,
   malikzadi, man, model, monarch, nance, nonesuch, nonpareil,
   optimum, pack, pair, pansy, paragon, pathic, pawn, pick,
   picture cards, piece, pismire, playing cards, prima donna, prime,
   princess, princesse, prize, punk, queen bee, queen consort,
   queen dowager, queen regent, queen regnant, queer, quintessence,
   raj-kumari, rani, red ant, rook, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff,
   ruler, sapphist, select, shahzadi, singleton, slave ant, soldier,
   sovereign, sovereign princess, sovereign queen, spades, star,
   straight, superlative, termite, the best, the best ever, the tops,
   the very best, trey, tribade, trick, trump, wasp, worker,
   yellow jacket

[6] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

queen
   no explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the "queen
   of sheba." the wives of the kings of israel are not so
   designated. in ps. 45:9, the hebrew for "queen" is not _malkah_,
   one actually ruling like the queen of sheba, but _shegal_, which
   simply means the king's wife. in 1 kings 11:19, pharaoh's wife
   is called "the queen," but the hebrew word so rendered g'birah
   is simply a title of honour, denoting a royal lady, used
   sometimes for "queen-mother" 1 kings 15:13; 2 chron. 15:16. in
   cant. 6:8, 9, the king's wives are styled "queens" heb.
   melakhoth.
   
     in the new testament we read of the "queen of the south",
   i.e., southern arabia, sheba matt. 12:42; luke 11:31 and the
   "queen of the ethiopians" acts 8:27, candace.
   

[7] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

queen. there are several kinds of queens in some countries. 1. queen 
regnant, is a woman who possesses in her own right the executive power of 
the country. 
     2. queen consort, is the wife of a king.
     3. queen dowager is the widow of a king. in the united states there is 
no one with this title. 

[8] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

queen, n.  a woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king,
and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

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