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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



... back upon him in the softest and sweetest of flower-waking spring-winds. Then indeed was his heart a bliss worth God's making. The sum of happiness in the city, if gathered that night into one wave, could not have reached half-way to the crest of the mighty billow tossing itself heavenward as it rushed along the ocean ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald
... of the honour and the prey; 360 Others the spoils of burning Troy convey Back to those ships which you but now forsake.' We making no return, his sad mistake Too late he finds; as when an unseen snake A traveller's unwary foot hath press'd, Who trembling starts, when the snake's azure crest, Swoll'n with his rising anger, he espies, So from our view surprised Androgeus flies. But here an easy victory we meet: Fear binds their hands and ignorance their feet. 370 Whilst fortune our first enterprise did aid, Encouraged with success, Choroebus ...
— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham
... right to inscribe a motto upon a garter or riband, except those dignified with one of the various orders of knighthood. For any other person to do so, is a silly assumption. The motto should be upon a scroll, either over the crest, or ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 • Various
... after an interval, in which the boats disappeared behind the rocks, they were seen advancing over the waters again—one—yes—both, and loaded. They came fast, they were in sight of all, growing larger each moment, mounting on the crest of the huge rolling waves, then plunged in the trough so long as to seem as if they were lost, then rising—rising high as mountains. Over the roaring waters came at length the sound of voices, a cheer, pitched in a different key from the thunder of wind and wave; ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge
... bristled boar. "The silver boar was the badge of Richard the Third; whence he was usually known in his own time by the name of the Boar" (Gray). Scott (notes to Lay of Last Minstrel) says: "The crest or bearing of a warrior was often used as a nom de guerre. Thus Richard III. acquired his well-known epithet, 'the Boar of York.'" Cf. Shakes. Rich. III. iv. 5: "this most bloody boar;" v. 2: "The wretched, ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray


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