Definition of crown

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Crown (n.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

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Crownet :: Crownet (n.) A coronet.
Crown Side :: Crown side () See Crown office.
Diadem :: Diadem (n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center..
Cusp :: Cusp (n.) A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth..
Cousin :: Cousin (n.) A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl..
Tiara :: Tiara (n.) The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity..
Poundage :: Poundage (n.) A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more..
Narcissus :: Narcissus (n.) A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds..
Coronule :: Coronule (n.) A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus.
Hereditary :: Hereditary (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown..
Aureole :: Aureole (n.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil..
Labarum :: Labarum (n.) The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard..
Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..
Surbated :: Surbased (a.) Having the vertical height from springing line to crown less than the half span; -- said of an arch; as, a segmental arch is surbased..
Scissorstail :: Scissorstail (n.) A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers..
Laureate :: Laureate (n.) One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.
Browbound :: Browbound (a.) Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem.
Krone :: Krone (n.) A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents. See Crown, n., 9..
Sergeanty :: Sergeanty (n.) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only..
Subtriple :: Subtrihedral (a.) Approaching the form of a three-sided pyramid; as, the subtrihedral crown of a tooth..
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