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A half farthing. [Obs.]

A thick, bushy plot; a thicket. [Obs.] Chapman.

Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving. "The queachy fens." "Godwin's queachy sands." Drayton.

A low woman; a wench; a slut. "The dread of every scolding quean." Gay.

In a queasy manner.

The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness. Shak.

Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish. " A queasy question." Shak. Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms. Cowper.

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.

A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspnoea 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 pr…

Sulphur. [Obs.]

A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.

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.

Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit; it is cured when green, keeps well, and has a delicate flavor. Loosely, any olive of similar character.

A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.

One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.

Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen. Elizabeth showed much queencraft in procuring the votes of the nobility. Fuller.

The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.

A California sciænoid food fish (Seriphys politus). The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.

The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness. Tennyson.

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.