English Dictionary: Queen Anne's lace | by the DICT Development Group |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bounty \Boun"ty\, n.; pl. {Bounties}. [OE. bounte goodness, kindness, F. bont[82], fr. L. bonitas, fr. bonus good, for older duonus; cf. Skr. duvas honor, respect.] 1. Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth. [Obs.] Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty. --Gower. 2. Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence. My bounty is as boundless as the sea. --Shak. 3. That which is given generously or liberally. [bd]Thy morning bounties.[b8] --Cowper. 4. A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures. {Bounty jumper}, one who, during the latter part of the Civil War, enlisted in the United States service, and deserted as soon as possible after receiving the bounty. [Collog.] {Queen Anne's bounty} (Eng. Hist.), a provision made in Queen Anne's reign for augmenting poor clerical livings. Syn: Munificence; generosity; beneficence. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Queen \Queen\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Queened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Queening \Queen"ing\, n. [See {Queen apple}.] (Bot.) 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quininic \Qui*nin"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quininism \Qui"nin*ism\, Quinism \Qui"nism\, n. (Med.) See {Cinchonism}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Queen Anne's County, MD (county, FIPS 35) Location: 39.03334 N, 76.08326 W Population (1990): 33953 (13944 housing units) Area: 964.1 sq km (land), 356.4 sq km (water) |