CPage 767
- English Word Crown Definition A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.
- English Word Crown Definition An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.
- English Word Crown Definition To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
- English Word Crown Definition To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- English Word Crown Definition To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- English Word Crown Definition To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
- English Word Crown Definition To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- English Word Crown office Definition The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases.
- English Word Crown side Definition See Crown office.
- English Word Crown wheel Definition A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
- English Word Crown-imperial Definition A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
- English Word Crown-post Definition Same as King-post.
- English Word Crown-saw Definition A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.
- English Word Crowned Definition of Crown
- English Word Crowned Definition Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected.
- English Word Crowned Definition Great; excessive; supreme.
- English Word Crowner Definition One who, or that which, crowns.
- English Word Crowner Definition A coroner.
- English Word Crownet Definition A coronet.
- English Word Crownet Definition The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end.