CPage 489
- 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.