Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Queen"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Queen \Queen\, v. i.
To act the part of a queen. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Queen \Queen\, n. [OE. quen, quene, queen, quean, AS. cw[=e]n
wife, queen, woman; akin to OS. qu[=a]n wife, woman, Icel.
kv[=a]n wife, queen, Goth. q[=e]ns. [root]221. 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.
5. (Chess) The most powerful, and except the king the most
important, piece in a set of chessmen.
6. A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the
queen of spades.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: {fagot},
{faggot}, {fag}, {fairy}, {nance}, {pansy}, {queer}, {poof},
{poove}, {pouf}]
5: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a
queen
6: the most powerful chess piece
7: especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole
rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
8: female cat [syn: {tabby}]
v 1: promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
2: become a queen, of a chess pawn
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