Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.