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   Queen Anne's lace
         n 1: a widely naturalized Eurasian herb with finely cut foliage
               and white compound umbels of small white or yellowish
               flowers and thin yellowish roots [syn: {wild carrot},
               {Queen Anne's lace}, {Daucus carota}]

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)
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