Crowest vs Crowdest - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (crow)
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus , having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
* 1922 , E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroborus
A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, page 267:
The cry of the rooster.
A gangplank () used by the Roman navy to board enemy ships.
(among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in joy, gaiety, or defiance.
* Shakespeare
* 1962 , (Bob Dylan),
To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
* Tennyson
* 1913 , :
(music) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
(archaic) (crowd)
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
* Addison:
* Macaulay:
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
* Shakespeare
To fill by pressing or thronging together.
* Prescott
To push, to press, to shove.
* 2006 , Lanna Nakone, Every Child Has a Thinking Style (ISBN 0399532463), page 73:
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds , and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
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(lb) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
* (1809-1892)
*:To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
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(obsolete) A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
* Ben Jonson
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
* 1819': wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, '''crowds , and rotes. — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
* 1684': That keep their consciences in cases, / As fiddlers do with ' crowds and bases — Samuel Butler, "Hudibras"
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between crowest and crowdest
is that crowest is (archaic) (crow) while crowdest is (archaic) (crowd).As verbs the difference between crowest and crowdest
is that crowest is (archaic) (crow) while crowdest is (archaic) (crowd).crowest
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Verb
(head)crow
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(wikipedia crow)Etymology 1
(etyl) ‘to crow’. See below.Noun
(en noun)- Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills.
- He approached the humble tomb in which Antonia reposed. He had provided himself with an iron crow and a pick-axe: but this precaution was unnecessary.
Synonyms
* (bar) crowbar * (cry of a rooster) cock-a-doodle-dooDerived terms
* American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos ) * as the crow flies * Australian crow (Corvus orru ) * Banggai crow (Corvus unicolor ) * bare-faced crow (Corvus tristis ) * Bismarck crow (Corvus insularis ) * black crow (Corvus capensis ) * Bougainville crow (Corvus meeki ) * brown-headed crow (Corvus fuscicapillus ) * cape crow (Corvus capensis ) * carrion crow (Corvus corone ) * Celebes pied crow (Corvus typicus ) * collared crow (Corvus torquatus ) * Cuban crow (Corvus nasicus ) * Danish crow * eastern jungle crow (Corvus (macrorhynchos) levaillantii ) * eat crow * Eurasian crow (Corvus corone ) * fish crow (Corvus ossifragus ) * Flores crow (Corvus florensis ) * grey crow (Corvus tristis ) * Hawaiian crow (Corvus hawaiiensis'', ''Corvus tropicus ) * high-billed crow * hooded crow (Corvus cornix ) * hoodiecrow * house crow (Corvus splendens ) * Indian house crow (Corvus splendens ) * Indian jungle crow (Corvus (macrorhynchos) culminatus ) * Iraq pied crow (Corvus (cornix) capellanus ) * Jamaican crow (Corvus jamaicensis ) * jungle crow (Corvus macrorhynchos ) * large-billed crow (Corvus (macrorhynchos) macrorhynchos ) * little crow (Corvus bennetti ) * long-billed crow (Corvus validus ) * Mariana crow (Corvus kubaryi ) * Mesopotamian crow (Corvus (cornix) capellanus ) * New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides ) * New Ireland crow * northwestern crow (Corvus caurinus ) * palm crow (Corvus palmarum ) * pied crow (Corvus albus ) * piping crow (Corvus typicus ) * Puerto Rican crow (Corvus pumilis ) * Robust crow (Corvus viriosus ) * Salomon Islands crow (Corvus meeki'', ''Corvus woodfordi ) * Scotch crow * Sinaloan crow (Corvus sinaloae ) * slender-billed crow (Corvus enca ) * Somali crow (Corvus (ruficolis) edithae ) * stone the crows * Tamaulipas crow (Corvus imparatus ) * Torresian crow (Corvus orru ) * violaceous crow (Corvus (enca) violaceus ) * white-billed crow (Corvus woodfordi ) * white-necked crow (Corvus leucognaphalus )See also
* caw * murder of crows (= flock of crows) * ravenExternal links
*Etymology 2
(etyl) ). Related to (m).Verb
- The morning cock crew loud.
- When your rooster crows at the break o' dawn
- Look out your window and I'll be gone.
- He's been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.
- the sweetest little maid that ever crowed for kisses
- Hearing the miner's footsteps, the baby would put up his arms and crow .
crowdest
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Verb
(head)crowd
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kruien.Verb
(en verb)- The man crowded into the packed room.
- They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- The whole company crowded about the fire.
- Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
- He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
- Crowd us and crush us.
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
- tried to crowd her off the sidewalk
- Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
Derived terms
* crowd control * crowd manipulation * crowd out * crowd psychology * crowd sailNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (group of things) aggregation, cluster, group, mass * (group of people) audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng * (the "lower orders" of people) everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashedDerived terms
* crowd catch * crowd-pleaser * crowd-puller * work the crowdEtymology 2
Celtic, from Welsh crwth.Noun
(en noun)- A lackey that can warble upon a crowd a little.