Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Query \Que"ry\, n.; pl. {Queries}. [L. quaere, imperative sing.
   of quaerere, quaesitum to seek or search for, to ask,
   inquire. Cf. {Acquire}, {Conquer}, {Exquisite}, {Quest},
   {Require}.]
   1. A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.

            I shall conclude with proposing only some queries,
            in order to a . . . search to be made by others.
                                                  --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.

   2. A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about
      his sincerity.

   3. An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a
      doubt.