Crowest vs Crownest - 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) (crown)
A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
(heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry
A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
(label) Any reward of victory or a mark of honor.
Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
* Blackstone
The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
* Macaulay
The topmost part of the head.
* Shakespeare
* Bunyan
The highest part of a hill.
* Dryden
The top section of a hat, above the brim.
The raised centre of a road.
The highest part of an arch.
Splendor; culmination; acme.
* Milton
Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone
# (historical) Particularly, a former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
#*1859 ,
#*:Half-a-crown'' is known as an (alderman), (half a bull), (half a tusheroon), and a (madza caroon); whilst a ''crown'' piece, or ''five shillings , may be called either a (bull), or a (caroon), or a (cartwheel), or a (coachwheel), or a (thick-un), or a (tusheroon).
(botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
(forestry) The top of a tree.
(anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
(nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
(nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
(nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
(paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
(chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
(medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
* 2007 , David Schottke, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care , page 385
(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
The dome of a furnace.
(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
(African-American colloquialism) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; elliptical for church crown.
*2013 , Adam Boulton, Tony's Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=N0EeXxOiiCoC&pg=PT305&dq=%22church+crown%22+sunday+hat&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TxjmVPjaH4fgywPR9YBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22church%20crown%22%20sunday%20hat&f=false]
*:"His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a church crown [Sunday best hat]."
Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
To place a crown on the head of.
To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
* Dryden
To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
* Bible, Psalms viii. 5
To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
* Byron
* Motley
To declare (someone) a winner.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Tom Fordyce
, title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France, work=BBC Sport
(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
To hit on the head.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
(board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
(firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
(military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
(nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
In archaic terms the difference between crowest and crownest
is that crowest is archaic second-person singular of crow while crownest is archaic second-person singular of crown.crowest
English
Verb
(head)crow
English
(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 .
crownest
English
Verb
(head)crown
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) coroune, curune, (etyl) corone (French couronne), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Parliament may be dissolved by the demise of the crown .
- Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown .
- Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown .
- From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches.
- Twenty things which I set down: / This done, I twenty more had in my crown .
- the steepy crown of the bare mountains
- mutual love, the crown of all our bliss
- (Totten)
- You will see the baby's head crowning during contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby.
Synonyms
* (reward of victory or a mark of honor) award, garland, honor/honour, prize, wreath * coronet * (representation of such a headdress) * (wreath or band for the head) garland, wreath * (imperial or regal power) monarchy, royalty * (of the head) apex, top * (of a hill) apex, peak, summit, top * (centre of a road) * (highest part of an arch) * (of a hat) top * completion, culmination, finish, splendor/splendour * (currency) * (British coin) caser, tusheroon, tush, tosheroon, tosh, bull, caroon, thick-un, coachwheel, cartwheel * (part of plant) * corona *Antonyms
* (of a hill) base, bottom, footDerived terms
* crown achievement * crown cactus * crown colony * Crown Court * crowned pigeon * crown estate * crown ether * crown fire * crown flower * crown gall * crown grafting * crown green * crown green bowls * crown lands * crown mammal * crown jewels, Crown Jewels * crown of thorns * crown prince * crown princess * crown ward * crown wheel * firecrown * forecrown * half-crown * nanocrown * plea of the crown * triple crownAdjective
(-)- crown prince
- a crown fire
Verb
(en verb)- Her who fairest does appear, / Crown her queen of all the year.
- Thou hast crowned him with glory and honour.
- the grove that crowns yon tufted hill
- To crown the whole, came a proposition.
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