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Queen mother   /kwin mˈəðər/   Listen
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Queen  n.  
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."
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."
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.
Queen apple. A kind of apple; a queening. "Queen apples and red cherries."
Queen bee (Zool.), a female bee, especially the female of the honeybee. See Honeybee.
Queen conch (Zool.), a very large West Indian cameo conch (Cassis cameo). It is much used for making cameos.
Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king.
Queen dowager, the widow of a king.
Queen gold, formerly a revenue of the queen consort of England, arising from gifts, fines, etc.
Queen mother, a queen dowager who is also mother of the reigning king or queen.
Queen of May. See May queen, under May.
Queen of the meadow (Bot.), a European herbaceous plant (Spiraea Ulmaria). See Meadowsweet.
Queen of the prairie (Bot.), an American herb (Spiraea lobata) with ample clusters of pale pink flowers.
Queen pigeon (Zool.), any one of several species of very large and handsome crested ground pigeons of the genus Goura, native of New Guinea and the adjacent islands. They are mostly pale blue, or ash-blue, marked with white, and have a large occipital crest of spatulate feathers. Called also crowned pigeon, goura, and Victoria pigeon.
Queen regent, or Queen regnant, a queen reigning in her own right.
Queen's Bench. See King's Bench.
Queen's counsel, Queen's evidence. See King's counsel, King's evidence, under King.
Queen's delight (Bot.), an American plant (Stillinqia sylvatica) of the Spurge family, having an herbaceous stem and a perennial woody root.
Queen's metal (Metal.), an alloy somewhat resembling pewter or britannia, and consisting essentially of tin with a slight admixture of antimony, bismuth, and lead or copper.
Queen's pigeon. (Zool.) Same as Queen pigeon, above.
Queen's ware, glazed English earthenware of a cream color.
Queen's yellow (Old Chem.), a heavy yellow powder consisting of a basic mercuric sulphate; formerly called turpetum minerale, or Turbith's mineral.





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... said the queen mother, who arrayed her daughter in her most resplendent robes, and set her on her throne in the heart ...
— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis
... assumed by the Spaniards to extend to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and even beyond it. Philip spurned the claim, asserted the Spanish right to all Florida, and asked whether or not the followers of Ribaut and Laudonniere had gone thither by authority of their King. The Queen Mother, Catherine de Medicis, replied in her son's behalf, that certain Frenchmen had gone to a country called Terre aux Bretons, discovered by French subjects, and that in so doing they had been warned not to encroach on lands belonging to the King of Spain. And she added, ...
— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.
... swimming toward the right bank, but there he saw Uncle Nep and half the royal tribe waiting to stamp him into the soft mud. So he turned toward the left bank, and there stood the queen mother and Uncle Nikki, red-eyed and angry, waiting to ...
— American Fairy Tales • L. Frank Baum
... and a half the struggle with the weak will of the king continued. He was violently agitated, but could not bring himself to order the murder of the guest to whom he had promised his royal faith and protection. The queen mother grew alarmed. Delay might ruin all, by the discovery of her plans. At length, with a ...
— Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality. French. • Charles Morris
... years past a curious problem had been perplexing the chanceries of Europe. Spain, ever since the time of Napoleon a prey to civil convulsions, had settled down for a short interval to a state of comparative quiet under the rule of Christina, the Queen Mother, and her daughter Isabella, the young Queen. In 1846, the question of Isabella's marriage, which had for long been the subject of diplomatic speculations, suddenly became acute. Various candidates for her hand were proposed—among others, ...
— Queen Victoria • Lytton Strachey


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