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  • English Word Crest Definition A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.
  • English Word Crest Definition The upper curve of a horse's neck.
  • English Word Crest Definition The ridge or top of a wave.
  • English Word Crest Definition The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
  • English Word Crest Definition The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
  • English Word Crest Definition The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
  • English Word Crest Definition The top line of a slope or embankment.
  • English Word Crest Definition To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
  • English Word Crest Definition To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.
  • English Word Crest Definition To form a crest.
  • English Word Crested Definition of Crest
  • English Word Crested Definition Having a crest.
  • English Word Crested Definition Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head.
  • English Word Crested Definition Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.
  • English Word Crestfallen Definition With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed.
  • English Word Crestfallen Definition Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.
  • English Word Cresting Definition of Crest
  • English Word Cresting Definition An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.
  • English Word Crestless Definition Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth.
  • English Word Cresylic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc.
  • English Word Cretaceous Definition Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.
  • English Word Cretaceously Definition In a chalky manner; as chalk.
  • English Word Cretan Definition Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.
  • English Word Cretan Definition A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.
  • English Word Crete Definition A Cretan
  • English Word Cretian Definition See Cretan.
  • English Word Cretic Definition A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).
  • English Word Creticism Definition Falsehood; lying; cretism.
  • English Word Cretin Definition One afflicted with cretinism.
  • English Word Cretinism Definition A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.