Definition of crown

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Crown (n.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth..

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Ecce Homo :: Ecce homo () A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns..
Principal :: Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France..
Vertex :: Vertex (n.) A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.
Phocodontia :: Phocodontia (n. pl.) A group of extinct carnivorous whales. Their teeth had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied genera.
Dam :: Dam (n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
King-post :: King-post (n.) A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post..
Tonsure :: Tonsure (n.) The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn..
Tenth :: Tenth (n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty..
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..
Discrowned :: Discrowned (imp. & p. p.) of Discrow.
Cuspid :: Cuspid (n.) One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.
Crown :: Crown (n.) To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
Crown :: Crown (n.) To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify..
Knoll :: Knoll (n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
Corona :: Corona (n.) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.
Dauphin :: Dauphin (n.) The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued..
Crowned :: Crowned (p. p. & a.) Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected..
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns..
Crown :: Crown (n.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley..
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