Chapter Quarter-days in England and Ireland:- to Queen's Ware of Q by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Queen Greek, gyne (a woman); Sanskrit, goni; Swedish, qvenna; Gothic, queins; Anglo-Saxon, cwen. (See Sir .)
   Queen, “woman,” is equivalent to “mother.” In the translation of the Bible by Ulfilas (fourth century), we meet with gens and gino (“wife” and “woman”); and in the Scandinavian languages karl and kone still mean “man” and “wife.” (See King.)

“He [Jesus] saith unto His mother, Woman, behold thy son.”- St. John xix. 26.

Queen (The White). Mary Queen of Scots; so called because she dressed in white mourning for her French husband.

Queen Anne is Dead The reply made to the teller of stale news.

Queen Anne's Bounty A fund created out of the firstfruits and tenths, which were part of the papal exactions before the Reformation. The firstfruits are the whole first year's profits of a clerical living, and the tenths are the tenth part annually of the profits of a living. Henry VIII. annexed both these to the Crown, but Queen Anne formed them into a perpetual fund for the augmentation of poor livings and the building of parsonages. The sum equals about £14,000 a year.

Queen Anne's Style (of architecture). Noted for many angles, gables, quaint features, and irregularity of windows.

Queen Consort Wife of a reigning king.

Queen Dick Richard Cromwell is sometimes so called. (See Dick, Greek Calends .)

Queen Dowager The widow of a deceased king.

Queen Passion (The Great). Love.

“The gallant Jew
Of mortal hearts the great queen passion knew.”
Peter Pindar: Portfolio; Dinah.

Queen Quintessence Sovereign of Etéléchie (q.v.), in the romance of Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Rabelais.

Queen Regnant A queen who holds the crown in her own right, in contradistinction to a Queen Consort, who is queen only because her husband is king.

Queen-Square Hermit Jeremy Bentham, who lived at No. 1, Queen Square, London. He was the father of the political economists called Utilitarians, whose maxim is, “The greatest happiness of the greatest number.” (1748-1832.)

Queen of Hearts Elizabeth, daughter of James I. This unfortunate Queen of Bohemia was so called in the Low Countries, from her amiable character and engaging manners, even in her lowest estate. (1596-1662.)

Queen of Heaven with the ancient Phoenicians, was Astarte; Greeks, Hera; Romans, Juno; Trivia, Hecate, Diana, the Egyptian Isis, etc., were all so called; but with the Roman Catholics it is the Virgin Mary.
   In Jeremiah vii. 18: “The children gather wood, ... and the women knead dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven,” i.e. probably to the Moon, to which the Jews, at the time, made drink-offerings and presented cakes. (Compare chapter xliv. 16-18.)

Queen of the Dripping-pan A cook.

Queen of the Eastern Archipelago The island of Java.

Queen of the May A village lass chosen to preside over the parish sports on May Day. Tennyson has a poem on the subject.

Queen of the North Edinburgh. (See the proper name for other queens.)