To furnish with a crest; serve as a crest for; surmount as a crest.
To mark with waving lines like the plumes of a helmet; adorn as with a plume or crest.
To reach, as a wave, the highest point; culminate.
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A tuft or other natural process growing upon the top of an animal's head, as the comb of a cock, a swelling on the head of a serpent, etc. See crista.
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Anything resembling, suggestive of, or occupying the same relative position as a crest.
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In heraldry, a part of an achievement borne outside of and above the escutcheon. There are sometimes two crests, which are borne on the sides. When the crest is not specially mentioned as emerging from a coronet, chapeau, or the like, it is assumed to be borne upon a wreath. A crest is not properly borne by a woman, or by a city or other corporate body, as it is always assumed to be the ornament worn upon the helmet.
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The foamy, feather-like top of a wave.
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The highest part or summit of a hill or mountain-range.
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In fortification, the top line of a slope.
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In architecture, any ornamental finishing of stone, terra-cotta, metal, or wood, which surmounts a wall, roof-ridge, screen, canopy, or other similar part of a building—whether a battlement, open carved work, or other enrichment; the coping on the parapet of a medieval building; a cresting (which see). The name is also sometimes given to the finials of gables and pinnacles.
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In anatomy, specifically, a ridge on a bone: as, the occipital crest; the frontal crest; the tibial crest. See phrases below, and crista.
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In zoology, any elongate elevation occupying the highest part of a surface. Specifically— A longitudinal central elevation, with an irregular or tuberculose summit, on the prothorax of an insect, especially of a grasshopper. A longitudinal elevated tuft of hairs or scales on the head, thorax, or abdominal segments of a lepidopterous insect.
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In botany: An elevated line, ridge, or lamina on the surface or at the summit of an organ, especially if resembling the crest of a helmet. An appendage to the upper surface of the leaves of curtain Hepaticæ, which in different genera has the form of a wing, a fold, or a pouch.
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The rising part or the ridge of the neck of a horse or a dog.
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Figuratively, pride; high spirit; courage; daring.
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See dicrotic.
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In ornithology, a crest of feathers rising from the front or forehead. Such crests are among the most elegant which birds possess. The cedar-bird or Carolina waxwing and the cardinal red-bird exhibit such crests. They are often recurved, as in the plumed quail of the genus Lophortyx.
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A transverse ridge on the hinder part of the skull of some animals, separating the occipital portion from the parietal or vertical portion.
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In ornithology, a tuft of feathers growing from the hindhead.