Word Meanings - UNQUEEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.

Related words: (words related to UNQUEEN)

• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• QUEENDOM
  The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.
• QUEEN-POST
  One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
• QUEENFISH
  A California sciænoid food fish . The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.
• QUEENING
  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.
• DIVESTURE
  Divestiture.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• QUEENLY
  Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
• QUEEN TRUSS
  A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.
• DIVEST
  See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
• QUEENSHIP
  The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.
• QUEEN
  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. (more info) woman; akin to OS. quan wife, woman, Icel. kvan wife, queen, Goth. 1.
• QUEENLINESS
  The quality of being queenly; the; characteristic of a queen; stateliness; eminence among women in attractions or power.
• QUEENHOOD
  The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness. Tennyson.
• QUEEN OLIVE
  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.
• QUEENSLAND NUT
  The nut of an Australian tree . 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.
• QUEENCRAFT
  Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen. Elizabeth showed much queencraft in procuring the votes of the nobility. Fuller.
• DIVESTIBLE
  Capable of being divested.
• UNQUEEN
  To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.
• DEQUEEN
  To remove the queen from .