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Crest   /krɛst/   Listen
noun
Crest  n.  
1.
A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. "(Attack) his rising crest, and drive the serpent back."
2.
The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet. "Stooping low his lofty crest." "And on his head there stood upright A crest, in token of a knight."
3.
(Her.) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.
4.
The upper curve of a horse's neck. "Throwing the base thong from his bending crest."
5.
The ridge or top of a wave. "Like wave with crest of sparkling foam."
6.
The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
7.
The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage. "Now the time is come That France must vail her lofty plumed crest."
8.
(Arch.) The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc. "The finials of gables and pinnacles are sometimes called crests."
9.
(Engin.) The top line of a slope or embankment.
Crest tile, a tile made to cover the ridge of a roof, fitting upon it like a saddle.
Interior crest (Fort.), the highest line of the parapet.


verb
Crest  v. t.  (past & past part. crested; pres. part. cresting)  
1.
To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for. "His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm Crested the world." "Mid groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow."
2.
To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes. "Like as the shining sky in summer's night,... Is crested with lines of fiery light."


Crest  v. i.  To form a crest.





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"Crest" Quotes from Famous Books



... stupid enough. Though I say it who should not, in good sound human stupidity I would knock Mr. Yeats out any day. The fairies like me better than Mr. Yeats; they can take me in more. And I have my doubts whether this feeling of the free, wild spirits on the crest of hill or wave is really the central and simple spirit of folk-lore. I think the poets have made a mistake: because the world of the fairy-tales is a brighter and more varied world than ours, they have fancied it less moral; really it is brighter ...
— All Things Considered • G. K. Chesterton
... smaller than the first and in measure its vassal, formed an amphitheatre the crest of which was bordered by a fringe of perpendicular rocks as white as dried bones. Under this crown, which rendered it almost inaccessible, the little valley was resplendent in its wealth of evergreen trees, oaks with their knotty branches, and ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... devils' brews which boiled, Boiled, shrieked, and glowered; but the ship was saved. Snugged safely down, though fourteen sails were split. Out of the dark a fiercer fury raved. The grey-backs died and mounted, each crest lit With a white toppling gleam that hissed from it And slid, or leaped, or ran with whirls of cloud, Mad with inhuman ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps
... the crest of the upland that shut out the village from him, he heard the clash of sleigh-bells; a pair of horses leaped into sight, and came bearing down upon him with that fine throw of their feet, which you get only ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells
... fig for your smooth lake, and your old woman to feed me with brewer's grains, and the poor drake obliged to come swattering whenever she whistles! Everard, I like to feel the wind rustle against my pinions,—now diving, now on the crest of the wave, now in ocean, now in sky—that is the wild-drake's joy, my grave one! And in the Civil War so it went with us—down in one county, up in another, beaten to-day, victorious tomorrow—now starving in some ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott


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