Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a crest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing or having a crest; adorned with a crest or plume: as, a crested helmet.
- In heraldry, wearing a comb, as a cock, or a natural crest of feathers, as any bird having one.
- In anatomy and zoology, cristate; having a central longitudinal elevation: said especially of the prothorax of an insect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a crest.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head.
- adjective (Bott.) Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
crest , orornamental tuft (on ananimal ) orplume (on ahelmet ). - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
crest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume
- adjective bearing an heraldic device
- adjective (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination
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Examples
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But, just so you know, it's going to be hard to beat having my nude body covered in crested geckos.
Fuck off, 2009! greygirlbeast 2009
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Here the current, flowing deep and strong, is met by the wind and runs high in crested waves.
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The next equestrian figure (IV) shows the fluted, or as it was called crested, armour, of about 1500.
Authorised Guide to the Tower of London W. J. Loftie 1875
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Sounds like a Mexican buzzard, formally known as the crested caracara, said Johnson County outdoorsman Ronnie Galbreath, who raises boer-cross goats outside Joshua.
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Sounds like a Mexican buzzard, formally known as the crested caracara, said Johnson County outdoorsman Ronnie Galbreath, who raises boer-cross goats outside Joshua.
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MAUREPAS, LA (WAFB) - The Amite River at French Settlement has crested, which is some positive news for the flooding in the Livingston Parish town of Maurepas.
WAFB - Local News 2008
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A&S was one of several companies in the early 20th century that made this kind of crested china, meaning that it has -- as you can see -- the crest of a particular town on it, in this case Three Bridges.
Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law's House: Souvenirs ewillett 2008
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"Something kind of crested up out of the water ... and we pretty quickly realized it wasn't a tuna," said Bruce Sweet, the vessel's skipper.
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In some parts of the Middle East some grasses, such as crested wheat, grew wild in such abundance that enough food could be harvested by a family in a few weeks to last them for a year.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 2~ Organic Energy and the Low-Energy Society 2009
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The sun has just kind of crested behind the mountains on the western side here of El Paso, so a beautiful West Texas desert evening as this plane approaches.
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The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence.
--Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
March 9, 2011