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Screamer :: Screamer (n.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, and the suborder Palamedeae. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta..

Cresting :: Cresting (n.) An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.

Crest :: Crest (v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes..

Pileated :: Pileated (a.) Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head..

Crest :: Crest (v. i.) To form a crest.

Pintado :: Pintado (n.) Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea..

Smew :: Smew (n.) small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun..

Phainopepla :: Phainopepla (n.) A small crested passerine bird (Phainopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher..

Combless :: Combless (a.) Without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock..

Comb :: Comb (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves..

Cucullated :: Cucullated (a.) Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles..

Increst :: Increst (v. t.) To adorn with a crest.

Ridge :: Ridge (n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest..

Pastor :: Pastor (n.) A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts..

Comb :: Comb (n.) The curling crest of a wave.

Mooruk :: Mooruk (n.) A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue..

Timber :: Timber (n.) The crest on a coat of arms.

Polycrotism :: Polycrotism (n.) That state or condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or elevations; -- contrasted with monocrotism and dicrotism..

Cop :: Cop (n.) The top of a thing; the head; a crest.

Pannikel :: Pannikel (n.) The brainpan, or skull; hence, the crest..

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