Copple-crown (n.) A created or high-topped crown or head. |
Cornets-a-piston (pl. ) of Cornet-a-piston |
Cornet-a-piston (n.) A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods |
Crown () of Crow |
Crown () p. p. of Crow. |
Crown (n.) A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction |
Crown (n.) A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc. |
Crown (n.) The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown |
Crown (n.) Imperial or regal power or dominion |
Crown (n.) Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish. |
Crown (n.) Highest state |
Crown (n.) The topmost part of anything |
Crown (n.) The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.) |
Crown (n.) The part of a hat above the brim. |
Crown (n.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum |
Crown (n.) The vertex or top of an arch |
Crown (n.) Same as Corona. |
Crown (n.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank. |
Crown (n.) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line. |
Crown (n.) The bights formed by the several turns of a cable. |
Crown (n.) The upper range of facets in a rose diamond. |
Crown (n.) The dome of a furnace. |
Crown (n.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters. |
Crown (n.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state |
Crown (n.) A size of writing paper. See under Paper. |
Crown (n.) A coin stamped with the image of a crown |
Crown (n.) An ornaments or decoration representing a crown |
Crown (n.) To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown |
Crown (n.) To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense |
Crown (n.) To form the topmost or finishing part of |
Crown (n.) To cause to round upward |
Crown (n.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach. |
Crown-imperial (n.) 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. |
Crown office () 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. |
Crown-post (n.) Same as King-post. |
Crown-saw (n.) A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. |
Crown side () See Crown office. |
Crown wheel () A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane |
Piston (n.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid |
bonnet macaque bonnet monkey capped macaque crown monkey Macaca radiata | Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair |
bevel gear pinion and crown wheel pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle |
crown | the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head |
crown diadem | an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty |
crown | a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory |
crown crest | the center of a cambered road |
crown crownwork jacket jacket crown cap | (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth, tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown |
crown jewel | a precious stone that is a valuable part of a sovereign's regalia |
crown jewels | regalia (jewelry and other paraphernalia) worn by a sovereign on state occasions |
crown lens | a lens made of optical crown glass |
crown of thorns | a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion |
crown saw | a saw having teeth around the edge of a hollow cylinder |
cylinder piston chamber | a chamber within which piston moves |
piston plunger | mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion |
piston ring | seal consisting of a split metal ring that seals the gap between a piston and the cylinder wall |
piston rod | connecting rod that moves or is moved by a piston |
crown | the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel |
pate poll crown | the top of the head |
pennant crown | the award given to the champion |
Crown | the Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy, the colonies revolted against the Crown |
British Crown | the symbol of the power of the British monarchy, members of the British Commonwealth owe allegiance to the British Crown |
crown fire | a forest fire that advances with great speed jumping from crown to crown ahead of the ground fire |
rack of lamb crown roast | a roast of the rib section of lamb |
Crown Colony | a British colony controlled by the British Crown, represented by a governor |
peak crown crest top tip summit | the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill), the view from the peak was magnificent, they clambered to the tip of Monadnock, the region is a few molecules wide at the summit |
crown prince | a male heir apparent to a throne |
crown princess | a female heir apparent to a throne |
crown princess | the wife of a crown prince |
Counsel to the Crown | a barrister selected to serve as counsel to the British ruler |
Piston Walter Piston | United States neoclassical composer (-) |
crape jasmine crepe jasmine crepe gardenia pinwheel flower East Indian rosebay Adam's apple Nero's crown coffee rose Tabernaemontana divaricate | tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas, northern India to Thailand |
corn cockle corn campion crown-of-the-field Agrostemma githago | European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed, a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways, naturalized in America |
crown daisy Chrysanthemum coronarium | shrubby annual of the Mediterranean region with yellowish-white flowers |
crownbeard crown-beard crown beard | any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads |
cowpen daisy golden crownbeard golden crown beard butter daisy Verbesina encelioides Ximenesia encelioides | coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb, southwestern United States to Mexico |
crown imperial Fritillaria imperialis | Eurasian herb with a cluster of leaves and orangeed bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem |
axseed crown vetch Coronilla varia | European herb resembling vetch, naturalized in the eastern United States, having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods |
crown of thorns Christ thorn Christ plant Euphorbia milii | somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts |
crown treetop | the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant |
Crown land | land that belongs to the Crown |
crown jewel | the most desirable assets of a corporation, their crown jewels figured prominently in the takeover attempt |
crown | an English coin worth shillings |
half crown | an English coin worth half a crown |
triple crown | (baseball) an unofficial title won by a batter who leads the league in hitting average, runs batted in, and home runs |
triple crown | (horse racing) a title won by a horse that can win the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness |
crown gall | a bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground |
crown wart | a fungous disease of alfalfa which forms white excrescences at the base of the stem |
cross crown of thorns | any affliction that causes great suffering, that is his cross to bear, he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns |
optical crown crown glass optical crown glass | optical glass of low dispersion and low refractive index |
crown glass | a glass blown into a globe which is later flattened and spun to form a disk |