Part 101 (1/2)

=Quaver=, a singing-master, who says ”if it were not for singing-masters, men and women might as well have been born dumb.” He courts Lucy by promising to give her singing lessons.--Fielding, _The Virgin Unmasked_.

=Queechy.= Farmstead to which the Rossiters retired after the ruin of their fortunes in New York. Old-fas.h.i.+oned house and not productive land.--Susan Warner, _Queechy_ (1852).

=Queen= (_The Starred Ethiop_), Ca.s.siopeia, wife of Cepheus (2 _syl._), king of Ethiopia. She boasted that she was fairer than the sea-nymphs, and the offended nereids complained of the insult to Neptune, who sent a sea-monster to ravage Ethiopia. At death, Ca.s.siopeia was made a constellation of thirteen stars.

... that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.

Milton, _Il Penseroso_, 19 (1638).

_Queen_ (_The White_), Mary queen of Scots, _La Reine Blanche_; so called by the French, because she dressed in white as mourning for her husband.

=Queen d.i.c.k=, Richard Cromwell (1626, 1658-1660, died 1712).

? _It happened in the reign of Queen d.i.c.k_, never, on the Greek kalends.

This does not refer to Richard Cromwell, but to Queen ”Outis.” There never was a Queen d.i.c.k, except by way of joke.

=Queen Sarah=, Sarah Jennings, d.u.c.h.ess of Marlborough (1660-1744).

Queen Anne only reigned while Queen Sarah governed.--_Temple Bar_, 208.

=Queen Square Hermit=, Jeremy Bentham, 1 Queen Square, London (1748-1832).

=Queen of Hearts=, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I., the unfortunate queen of Bohemia (1596-1662).

=Queen of Heaven=, Ashtoreth (”the moon”). Horace calls the moon ”the two-horned queen of the stars.”

Some speak of the Virgin Mary as ”the queen of heaven.”

=Queen of Queens.= Cleopatra was so called by Mark Antony (B.C. 69-30).

=Queen of Song=, Angelica Catala'ni; also called ”the Italian Nightingale”

(1782-1849).

=Queen of Sorrow=, the marble tomb at Delhi called the Taj-Mahul, built by Shah Jehan for his wife, Moomtaz-i-Mahul.

=Queen of Tears=, Mary of Mo'dena, second wife of James II. of England (1658-1718).

Her eyes became eternal fountains of sorrow for that crown her own ill policy contributed to lose.--n.o.ble, _Memoirs, etc._ (1784).

=Queen of the East=, Zen.o.bia, queen of Palmy'ra (*, 266-273).