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Crest   /krɛst/   Listen
Crest

noun
1.
The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave.
2.
The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill).  Synonyms: crown, peak, summit, tip, top.  "They clambered to the tip of Monadnock" , "The region is a few molecules wide at the summit"
3.
The center of a cambered road.  Synonym: crown.
4.
(heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet.
5.
A showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal.
verb
(past & past part. crested; pres. part. cresting)
1.
Lie at the top of.  Synonym: cap.
2.
Reach a high point.



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"Crest" Quotes from Famous Books



... service, waiting patiently for the end. One instance of a more imaginative kind shows us 'Neptune's Horses' as the painter dimly discerned them, with arched necks and flowing manes, rising and leaping in the crest of the wave. ...
— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore
... let fall his sword so heavily upon his helm that he carried away the crest and the nasal, but the sword slipped on the mailed shoulder, and glanced on the horse, and killed it, so that of force Duke Riol must slip the stirrup and leap and feel the ground. Then Riol too was on his feet, and they both fought hard in their ...
— The Romance Of Tristan And Iseult • M. Joseph Bedier
... this day, underneath the Galah's crest you can always find the bald patch which the bubberah of Oolah first made. And in the country of the Galahs are lizards coloured reddish brown, and covered with spikes like ...
— Australian Legendary Tales - Folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies • K. Langloh Parker
... language, "the waves ran mountain high," which means from twenty to forty feet; perhaps, on this occasion, twenty-five feet from the trough of the sea to the crest of the billow. Even this is a great height to be tossed up and down on the water; and to the boys of the Young America the effect was grand, if not terrific. The deck was constantly flooded with water; additional life-lines had ...
— Outward Bound - Or, Young America Afloat • Oliver Optic
... her first-born tell? Frenchmen stript him where he fell, Gashed and marred his comely face; Who can know him in his place? Up and spake two brethren wise, 'Youngest hearts have keenest eyes; Bird which leaves its mother's nest, Moults its pinions, moults its crest. Let us call the Swan-neck here, She that was his leman dear; She shall know him in this stound; Foot of wolf, and scent of hound, Eye of hawk, and wing of dove, Carry woman to her love.' Up and spake the Swan-neck high, 'Go! to all your thanes let cry How I loved him best of all, I whom men ...
— Andromeda and Other Poems • Charles Kingsley


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