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Look up: Queen

  1. Queen
    Queen is a township in Polk County Minnesota, USA
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/GO

  2. Queen
    Unneutered female cat.
    Found on http://www.moggies.co.uk/gloss.html

  3. queen
    [n] - something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind 2. [n] - the wife or widow of a king 3. [n] - a female sovereign ruler 4. [n] - one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen 5. [n] - (chess) the most powerful chess piece 6. [n] - especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males 7. [n] - the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites 8. [v] - promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess 9. [v] - become a queen, as of a chess pawn
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. queen
    [n] - something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind 2. [n] - the wife or widow of a king 3. [n] - a female sovereign ruler 4. [n] - one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen 5. [n] - (chess) the most powerful chess piece 6. [n] - especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males 7. [n] - the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites 8. [v] - promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess 9. [v] - become a queen, as of a chess pawn
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. Queen
    Queen noun [ Middle English quen , quene , queen, quean, Anglo-Saxon cwēn wife, queen, woman; akin to Old Saxon quān wife, woman, Icelandic kvān wife, queen, Goth. qēns . √221. See Quean .] 1. The wife of a king. 2. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, que …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Q/7

  6. Queen
    Queen intransitive verb To act the part of a queen. Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Q/7

  7. Queen
    Queen intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Queened ; present participle & verbal noun 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Q/7

  8. queen
    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 que …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?q

  9. queen
    noun (chess) the most powerful piece
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. queen
    queen regnant noun a female sovereign ruler
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. queen
    noun an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. queen
    noun a competitor who holds a preeminent position
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. Queen
    In singular form, `Queen` or `The Queen` may refer to: In `government and monarchy`: * Queen regnant, a female monarch, equivalent to the male title king; she is referred to informally in the third person as `The Queen` * Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king * Queen dowager, a former queen consort whose husband has died or abdicated * Queen mother, either a queen dowager, or a queen regnant who has abdicated, whose son or daughter has beco...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen

  14. Queen
    In singular form, `Queen` or `The Queen` may refer to: In `government and monarchy`: * Queen regnant, a female monarch, equivalent to the male title king; she is referred to informally in the third person as `The Queen` * Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king * Queen dowager, a former queen consort whose husband has died or abdicated * Queen mother, either a queen dowager, or a queen regnant who has abdicated, whose son or daughter has beco...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen

  15. Queen
    • (v. i.) To act the part of a queen. • (n.) The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites. • (n.) A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades. • (n.) A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of citi...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  16. queen
    (from the article `ant`) There are generally three castes, or classes, within a colony: queens, males, and workers. Some species live in the nests of other species as ... Back in the parent colony, the first queen to emerge after the mother queen departs with the swarm immediately attempts to destroy the others. If two ... ...The res...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/q/5

  17. queen
    (from the article `chess`) Each player has one queen, which combines the powers of the rook and bishop and is thus the most mobile and powerful piece. The White queen begins at ... ...factor in the course of a game. But under the new rules the counselor underwent a sex change and gained vastly increased mobility to become the ... ......
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/q/5

  18. queen
    (from the article `old maid`) Two or more can play with a standard 52-card deck from which one black queen is discarded. The cards are then dealt around one at a time as far as ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/q/5

  19. Queen
    British rock band whose fusion of heavy metal, glam rock, and camp theatrics made it one of the most popular groups of the 1970s. Although generally ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/q/5

  20. Queen
    Queen is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Queen` Where is it used? The name Queen is mainly used In English.See also In English: Queenie (F) From Old English. Queen doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Queen appeared In the top-1000 was 58 years ago, In 1950. It ranked #535 In that year. . 1900 was a `top year`
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Que

  21. Queen
    a fully developed female bee, larger and longer than a worker bee.
    Found on http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/bkCD/glossary.

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8 January 2009

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Rationing began on 8 January 1940. Each person was allowed a specific mount of basic foods. In July 1940 a complete ban was put on the making or selling of iced cakes, and in September the manufacture of `candied peel` or `crystallised cherries` meant the death knell for the traditional wedding cake. On 1st December 1941 the Ministry of Food introduced the points rationing scheme for items such as canned meat, fish and vegetables at first. Everyone was given 16 points a month, later raised to twenty, to spend as wished at any shop that had the items wanted. read more

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