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- English Word Queach Definition A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
- English Word Queach Definition To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.
- English Word Queachy Definition Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.
- English Word Queachy Definition Like a queach; thick; bushy.
- English Word Quean Definition A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
- English Word Quean Definition A low woman; a wench; a slut.
- English Word Queasily Definition In a queasy manner.
- English Word Queasiness Definition The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.
- English Word Queasy Definition Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
- English Word Queasy Definition Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish.
- English Word Quebec group Definition The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.
- English Word Quebracho Definition A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn/a of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties.
- English Word Quebrith Definition Sulphur.
- English Word Quech Definition Alt. of Queck
- English Word Queck Definition A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.
- English Word Queen Definition The wife of a king.
- English Word Queen Definition A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
- English Word Queen Definition A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.
- English Word Queen Definition The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
- English Word Queen Definition The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
- English Word Queen Definition A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
- English Word Queen Definition A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.
- English Word Queen Definition To act the part of a queen.
- English Word Queen 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.
- English Word Queen truss Definition A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.
- English Word Queencraft Definition Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen.
- English Word Queendom Definition The dominion, condition, or character of a queen.
- English Word Queened Definition of Queen
- English Word Queenfish Definition A California sciaenoid food fish (Seriphys politus). The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.
- English Word Queenhood Definition The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness.