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Queen"hood (?), n. The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness. Tennyson.

Queen"ing (?), n. [See Queen apple.] (Bot.) 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"li*ness (?), n. The quality of being queenly; the; characteristic of a queen; stateliness; eminence among women in attractions or power.

Queen"ly, a. [AS. cwnlic feminine.] Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.

Queen"-post` (?), n. [Arch.] One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.

Queen"ship, n. The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.

Queens"land nut` (?). (Bot.) 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 (?). (Arch.) A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.

Queer (?), a. [Compar. Queerer (?); superl. Queerest.] [G. quer cross, oblique, athwart (cf. querkopf a queer fellow), OHG. twer, twerh, dwerah; akin to D. dvars, AS, ˛weorh thwart, bent, twisted, Icel. ˛verr thwart, transverse, Goth. ˛waÏrhs angry, and perh. to L. torqyere to twist, and E. through. Cf. Torture, Through, Thwart, a.] 1. 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. " A queer look." W. Irving.

2. Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction. [Colloq.]

Queer, n. Counterfeit money. [Slang]

To shove the queer, to put counterfeit money in circulation. [Slang]

Queer"ish, a. Rather queer; somewhat singular.

Queer"ly, adv. In a queer or odd manner.

Queer"ness, n. The quality or state of being queer.

Queest (?), n. [Cf. Icel. kvisa a kind of bird, kvistr a branch of a tree, and E. cushat.] (Zoˆl.) The European ringdove (Columba palumbus); the cushat. [Written also quist, queeze, quice, queece.] See Ringdove.

Quegh (?), n. A drinking vessel. See Quaich.

Queint (?), a. See Quaint. [Obs.]

Queint, obs. imp. & p. p. of Quench. Chaucer.

Queint"ise (?), n. See Quaintise. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Quell (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quelled (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Quelling.] [See Quail to cower.]

1. To die. [Obs.]

Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.

Spenser.

2. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. [R.]

Winter's wrath begins to quell.

Spenser.

Quell, v. t. [OE. quellen to kill, AS. cwellan, causative of cwelan to die; akin to OHG. quellen to torment, Icel. kvelja. See Quail to cower.] 1. To take the life of; to kill. [Obs.] Spenser.