crown

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An ornamental circlet or head covering, often made of precious metal set with jewels and worn as a symbol of sovereignty.
2. n. The power, position, or empire of a monarch or of a state governed by constitutional monarchy.
3. n. The monarch as head of state.
4. n. A distinction or reward for achievement, especially a title signifying championship in a sport.
5. n. Something resembling a diadem in shape.
6. n. A coin stamped with a crown or crowned head on one side.
7. n. A silver coin formerly used in Great Britain and worth five shillings.
8. n. Any one of several coins, such as the koruna, the krona, or the krone, having a name that means "crown.”
9. n. The top or highest part of the head.
10. n. The head itself.
11. n. The top or upper part of a hat.
12. n. The highest point or summit.
13. n. The highest, primary, or most valuable part, attribute, or state: considered the rare Turkish stamp the crown of their collection.
14. n. Dentistry The part of a tooth that is covered by enamel and projects beyond the gum line.
15. n. Dentistry An artificial substitute for the natural crown of a tooth.
16. n. Nautical The lowest part of an anchor, where the arms are joined to the shank.
17. n. Architecture The highest portion of an arch, including the keystone.
18. n. Botany The upper part of a tree, which includes the branches and leaves.
19. n. Botany The part of a plant, usually at ground level, where the stem and roots merge.
20. n. Botany The persistent, mostly underground base of a perennial herb.
21. n. Botany See corona.
22. n. The crest of an animal, especially of a bird.
23. n. The portion of a cut gem above the girdle.
24. v. To put a crown or garland on the head of.
25. v. To invest with regal power; enthrone.
26. v. To confer honor, dignity, or reward upon.
27. v. To surmount or be the highest part of.
28. v. To form the crown, top, or chief ornament of.
29. v. To bring to completion or successful conclusion; consummate: crowned the event with a lavish reception.
30. v. Dentistry To put a crown on (a tooth).
31. v. Games To make (a piece in checkers that has reached the last row) into a king by placing another piece upon it.
32. v. Informal To hit on the head.
33. v. To reach a stage in labor when a large segment of the fetal scalp is visible at the vaginal orifice. Used of a fetus.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An ornament for the head; originally, among the ancients, a wreath or garland; hence, any wreath or garland worn on the head; a coronal. Crowns, made at first of grass, flowers, twigs of laurel, oak, olive, etc., but later of gold, were awarded in ancient Rome to the victors in the public games, and to citizens who had done the state some distinguished service. See corona, 2.
2. n. An ornament or covering for the head worn as a Symbol of sovereignty. Crowns were of very varied forms till heralds devised a regular series to mark the grades of rank, from the imperial crown to the baron's coronet. (See coronet, 2.) The crown of England is a gold circle, adorned with pearls and precious stones, from which rise alternately four Maltese crosses and four fleurs-de-lis. From the tops of the crosses spring imperial arches, closing under a mound and cross. Within the crown is a crimson velvet cap with an ermine border. The crown of Charlemagne, which is preserved in the imperial treasury of Vienna, is composed of eight plates of gold, four large and four small, connected by hinges. The large plates are studded with precious stones, the front one being surmounted with a cross; the smaller ones, placed alternately with these, are ornamented with enamels representing Solomon, David, Hezekiah, and Isaiah, and Christ seated between two flaming seraphim. The Austrian crown is a sort of cleft tiara, having in the middle a semicircle of gold supporting a mound and cross; the tiara rests on a circle with pendants like those of a miter. The Russian crown is a modified form of the same imperial crown. The royal crown of France is a circle ornamented with eight fieurs-de-lis, from which rise as many quarter-circles closing under a double fieur-de-lis. The triple crown of the popes is more commonly called the tiara. (See diadem.) In heraldry the crown is used as a bearing in many forms. When a coronet or open crown is used to alter or differentiate a bearing, whether on the escutcheon or as a crest or supporter, it is not blazoned by itself, but the bearing is said to be crowned; when it is placed around the neck of an animal, the animal is said to be gorged.
3. n. Figuratively, regal power; royalty kingly government.
4. n. The wearer of a crown; the sovereign as head of the state.
5. n. Honorary distinction; reward; guerdon.
6. n. A crowning honor or distinction; an exalting attribute or condition.
7. n. The top or highest part of something; the uppermost part or eminence, likened to a crown.
8. n. The top of a hat or other covering for the head.
9. n. The summit of a mountain or other elevated object.
10. n. The end of the shank of an anchor, or the point from which the arms proceed; the part where the arms are joined to the shank. See cut under anchor.
11. n. In lapidaries' work, the part of a cut gem above the girdle. See cut under brilliant.
12. n. In mech., any terminal flat member of a structure.
13. n. In architecture, the uppermost member of a cornice; the corona or larmier.
14. n. The face of an anvil.
15. n. The highest or central part of a road, causeway, bridge, etc.
16. n. The crest, as of a bird.
17. n. Completion; consummation; highest or most perfect state; acme.
18. n. A little circle shaved on the top of the head as a mark of ecclesiastical office or distinction; the tonsure.
19. n. That part of a tooth which appears above the gum; especially, that part of a molar tooth which opposes the same part of a tooth of the opposite jaw.
20. n. In geometry, the area inclosed between two concentric circles.
21. n. In botany, a circle of appendages on the throat of the corolla, etc. See corona, 6.
22. n. A coin generally bearing a crown or a crowned head on the reverse. The English crown is worth 5 shillings or $1.22, and was issued by Edward VI. in 1551, and by his successors. The obverse type of the crowns of Edward VI., James I., and Charles I. is the king on horseback, but from Charles II. to Victoria the obverse type is the head of the king or queen. The rare piece known as the Oxford crown was made, under Charles I., by the engraver Rawlins, and bears on the obverse a small view of Oxford, in addition to the ordinary type. The petition-crown is a pattern or trial-piece for a crown of Charles II., bearing the petition of its engraver, Thomas Simon, praying the king to compare the coin with the crown of the Dutch engraver John Roettier, by whom Simon had been superseded at the English mint. The crown of the rose, crown of the double rose, double crown, Britain-crown, and thistle-crown were English gold coins. The crown of the rose was first introduced by Henry VIII. in 1526, and was made current for 4s. 6d. The crowns of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are now worth 26.8 cents. The old crown of Denmark was 4 marks of crown money, or $1.23. The crown of Holland was 87 cents; that of Brabant, $1.07; that of France, $1.12 (that is, the écu at the beginning of the eighteenth century; but the old écu de la couronne, properly so called, varied from $1.50 to $2.20); that of Bern, 90 cents; that of Zurich, 89 cents; that of Basel, 85 cents. The silver crown of Portugal is $1.08. The Austrian gold crown is worth about $5. The name was also often used in English to translate the Italian scudo.
23. n. In Great Britain, a printing-paper of the size 15 × 20 inches: so called from the water-mark of a crown, once given exclusively to this size.
24. n. In the United States, a writing-paper of the size 15 × 19 inches.
25. n. Nautical, a kind of knot made with the strands of a rope. See crown, v. t., 9.
26. n. The Order of the Crown of Bavaria, founded by King Maximilian Joseph I. in 1808. It is granted to persons who have attained distinction in the civil service of the state.
27. n. The Imperial Order of the Crown of India, founded in 1878 for ladies, at the time of the assumption by Queen Victoria of the title Empress of India. It includes a number of Indian women of the highest rank.
28. n. The Order of the Crown of Italy, founded by King Victor Emmanuel in 1868.
29. n. The Order of the Crown of Prussia, founded by King William I. on his coronation in 1861.
30. n. The Order of the Crown of Rumania, founded by King Charles on assuming the royal title in 1881.
31. n. The Order of the Crown of Saxony, founded by King Frederick Augustus in 1807, soon after his assumption of the kingly title. It is of but one class, and limited to persons of high rank.
32. n. The Order of the Crown of Siam, founded in 1869.
33. n. The Order of the Crown of Würtemberg, founded by King William I. in 1818.
34. Relating to, pertaining to, or connected with the crown or royal possessions and authority: as, the crown jewels.
35. To bestow a crown or garland upon; place a garland upon the head of.
36. To invest with or as if with a regal crown; hence, to invest with regal dignity and power.
37. To cover as if with a crown.
38. To confer honor, reward, or dignity upon; recompense; dignify; distinguish; adorn.
39. To form the topmost or finishing part of; terminate; complete; fill up, as a bowl with wine; consummate; perfect.
40. Milit., to effect a lodgment and establish works upon, as the crest of the glacis or the summit of a breach.
41. In the game of checkers, to make a king of, or mark as a king: said of placing another piece upon the top of one that has been moved into an opponent's king-row. See checker, 3.
42. To mark with the tonsure, as a sign of admission to the priesthood.
43. Nautical, to form into a sort of knot, as a rope, by passing the strands over and under one another.
44. n. The horizontal cap-piece or collar of a set of mine timbers. Also called crown-tree.
45. n. That part of the bridle of a harness which extends over the horse's head and to which the checks are attached.
46. n. In agriculture, the middle line of a ridge of land, formed by two furrow-slices laid back to back.
47. n. In bell-founding, the top of a bell, of which the cannons are parts and to which the tongue is attached within. Also called pallet.
48. n. Same as howell.
49. n. The summit of a root, as of a beet or turnip, the leaf-bases forming a circle.
50. n. The leaves and living branches of a tree. In forest measurements the use of the term varies with the kind of free and the purpose of the measurements. For example, crown may be used to designate either the whole leaf-and-branch system or that portion of it above a dead or a growing branch of a given size. In the description of trees the crown is said to be long or short, broad or narrow, compact or ragged, conical or flat.
51. n. An abbreviation of crown-glass.
52. n. See triple.
53. To give a crown or bulge to: as, to crown the surface of a ship's deck.
54. To cut off (the crown), as of a sugar-beet.

Wiktionary

1. n. A reward of victory or a mark of honor.
2. n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
3. n. 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
4. n. A wreath or band for the head.
5. n. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
6. n. The topmost part of the head.
7. n. The highest part a hill.
8. n. The top part of a hat.
9. n. The raised centre of a road.
10. n. The highest part of an arch.
11. n. Splendor, finish, culmination.
12. n. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress)
13. n. Specifically, a former British coin worth five shillings.
14. n. botany The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
15. n. anatomy The part of a tooth above the gums.
16. n. dentistry A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
17. n. nautical A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
18. n. nautical The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
19. n. paper A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
20. n. chemistry A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
21. n. medicine During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
22. n. firearms A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
23. adj. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
24. adj. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
25. v. To place a crown on the head of.
26. v. To formally declare (someone) a king or emperor.
27. v. To declare (someone) a winner.
28. v. medicine Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
29. v. transitive To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
30. v. To hit on the head
31. v. video games To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
32. v. board games In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
33. v. firearms To widen the opening of the barrel.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. obsolete p. p. of crow.
2. n. A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.
3. n. A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.
4. n. The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.
5. n. Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.
6. n. Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.
7. n. Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.
8. n. The topmost part of anything; the summit.
9. n. The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.
10. n. The part of a hat above the brim.
11. n. (Anat.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.
12. n. (Arch.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.
13. n. (Bot.) Same as Corona.
14. n. That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.
15. n. The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
16. n. The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.
17. n. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
18. n. The dome of a furnace.
19. n. (Geom.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.
20. n. (Eccl.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
21. n. A size of writing paper. See under Paper.
22. n. A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.
23. n. An ornaments or decoration representing a crown.
24. v. To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
25. v. To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
26. v. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
27. v. (Mech.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
28. v. (Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. invest with regal power; enthrone.
2. n. (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
3. n. the center of a cambered road
4. v. form the topmost part of
5. n. the award given to the champion
6. v. put an enamel cover on
7. n. the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head
8. n. the Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy
9. n. an English coin worth 5 shillings
10. n. the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
11. n. the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
12. n. the top of the head
13. n. the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
14. v. be the culminating event
15. n. an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
16. n. a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory