a. [-LIKE.] Like a queen; majestic, haughty, etc., as a queen; queenly.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., x. 117. Istrad likewise hies Unto the Queen-like Cluyd.
1670. Hannah Woolley (title), The Queen-like Closet; or, Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of Rare Receipts.
1828. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 200. With queenlike indifference she cast it from her hand.
1871. Carlyle, in Mrs. C.’s Lett., II. 310. The most queen-like woman I had ever known.
