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crowned
(encz) | crowned,korunovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Crowned
(gcide) | Crown \Crown\ (kroun), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowned (kround);
p. pr. & vb. n. Crowning.] [OE. coronen, corunen, crunien,
crounien, OF. coroner, F. couronner, fr. L. coronare, fr.
corona a crown. See Crown, n.]
1. To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to
invest with royal dignity and power.
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Her who fairest does appear,
Crown her queen of all the year. --Dryden.
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Crown him, and say, "Long live our emperor." --Shak.
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2. To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or
recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
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Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor.
--Ps. viii. 5.
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3. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to
consummate; to perfect.
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Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill.
--Byron.
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One day shall crown the alliance. --Shak.
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To crown the whole, came a proposition. --Motley.
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4. (Mech.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher
at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine
pulley.
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5. (Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the
glacis, or the summit of the breach.
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To crown a knot (Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands
over and under each other.
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Crowned
(gcide) | Crowned \Crowned\ (kround), p. p. & a.
1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or
adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored;
rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with
one crest." --Shak. "Crowned with conquest." --Milton.
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With surpassing glory crowned. --Milton.
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2. Great; excessive; supreme. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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crowned
(wn) | crowned
adj 1: having an (artificial) crown on a tooth; "had many
crowned teeth" [ant: uncrowned]
2: crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory [syn:
laureled, laurelled, crowned] [ant: unlaureled,
unlaurelled]
3: provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified;
often used in combination; "a high-crowned hat"; "an orange-
crowned bird"; "a crowned signet ring" [ant: crownless,
uncrowned] |
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crowned head
(encz) | crowned head, n: |
gold-crowned kinglet
(encz) | gold-crowned kinglet, n: |
ruby-crowned kinglet
(encz) | ruby-crowned kinglet, n: |
ruby-crowned wren
(encz) | ruby-crowned wren, n: |
uncrowned
(encz) | uncrowned,nekorunovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
white-crowned sparrow
(encz) | white-crowned sparrow, n: |
yellow-crowned night heron
(encz) | yellow-crowned night heron, n: |
black-crowned thrush
(gcide) | Thunderbird \Thun"der*bird`\, n. (Zool.)
An Australian insectivorous singing bird ({Pachycephala
gutturalis}). The male is conspicuously marked with black and
yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also
white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust,
black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and
black-breasted flycatcher.
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Copple-crowned
(gcide) | Copple-crown \Cop"ple-crown\, n.
A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the
copple-crown the lapwing has." --T. Randolph. --
Cop"ple-crowned`, a.
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Crowned
(gcide) | Crown \Crown\ (kroun), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowned (kround);
p. pr. & vb. n. Crowning.] [OE. coronen, corunen, crunien,
crounien, OF. coroner, F. couronner, fr. L. coronare, fr.
corona a crown. See Crown, n.]
1. To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to
invest with royal dignity and power.
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Her who fairest does appear,
Crown her queen of all the year. --Dryden.
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Crown him, and say, "Long live our emperor." --Shak.
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2. To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or
recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
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Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor.
--Ps. viii. 5.
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3. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to
consummate; to perfect.
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Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill.
--Byron.
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One day shall crown the alliance. --Shak.
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To crown the whole, came a proposition. --Motley.
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4. (Mech.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher
at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine
pulley.
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5. (Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the
glacis, or the summit of the breach.
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To crown a knot (Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands
over and under each other.
[1913 Webster]Crowned \Crowned\ (kround), p. p. & a.
1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or
adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored;
rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with
one crest." --Shak. "Crowned with conquest." --Milton.
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With surpassing glory crowned. --Milton.
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2. Great; excessive; supreme. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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crowned pigeon
(gcide) | Queen \Queen\, n. [OE. quen, quene, queen, quean, AS. cw[=e]n
wife, queen, woman; akin to OS. qu[=a]n wife, woman, Icel.
kv[=a]n wife, queen, Goth. q[=e]ns. [root]221. See Quean.]
1. The wife of a king.
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2. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female
monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of
Scots.
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In faith, and by the heaven's quene. --Chaucer.
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3. A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of
her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used
figuratively of cities, countries, etc. " This queen of
cities." " Albion, queen of isles." --Cowper.
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4. The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees,
ants, and termites.
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5. (Chess) The most powerful, and except the king the most
important, piece in a set of chessmen.
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6. A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the
queen of spades.
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Queen apple. [Cf. OE. quyne aple quince apple.] A kind of
apple; a queening. "Queen apples and red cherries."
--Spenser.
Queen bee (Zool.), a female bee, especially the female of
the honeybee. See Honeybee.
Queen conch (Zool.), a very large West Indian cameo conch
(Cassis cameo). It is much used for making cameos.
Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king. --Blackstone.
Queen dowager, the widow of a king.
Queen gold, formerly a revenue of the queen consort of
England, arising from gifts, fines, etc.
Queen mother, a queen dowager who is also mother of the
reigning king or queen.
Queen of May. See May queen, under May.
Queen of the meadow (Bot.), a European herbaceous plant
(Spir[ae]a Ulmaria). See Meadowsweet.
Queen of the prairie (Bot.), an American herb ({Spir[ae]a
lobata}) with ample clusters of pale pink flowers.
Queen pigeon (Zool.), any one of several species of very
large and handsome crested ground pigeons of the genus
Goura, native of New Guinea and the adjacent islands.
They are mostly pale blue, or ash-blue, marked with white,
and have a large occipital crest of spatulate feathers.
Called also crowned pigeon, goura, and {Victoria
pigeon}.
Queen regent, or Queen regnant, a queen reigning in her
own right.
Queen's Bench. See King's Bench.
Queen's counsel, Queen's evidence. See King's counsel,
King's evidence, under King.
Queen's delight (Bot.), an American plant ({Stillinqia
sylvatica}) of the Spurge family, having an herbaceous
stem and a perennial woody root.
Queen's metal (Metal.), an alloy somewhat resembling pewter
or britannia, and consisting essentially of tin with a
slight admixture of antimony, bismuth, and lead or copper.
Queen's pigeon. (Zool.) Same as Queen pigeon, above.
Queen's ware, glazed English earthenware of a cream color.
Queen's yellow (Old Chem.), a heavy yellow powder
consisting of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- formerly
called turpetum minerale, or Turbith's mineral.
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Discrowned
(gcide) | Discrown \Dis*crown"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discrowned; p. pr.
& vb. n. Discrowning.]
To deprive of a crown.
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The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably
discrowned the workman. --Motley.
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golden-crowned thrush
(gcide) | Ovenbird \Ov"en*bird`\, n. (Zool.)
(a) Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the
creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies,
and construct curious oven-shaped nests.
(b) In the United States, Seiurus aurocapillus; -- called
also golden-crowned thrush.
(c) In England, sometimes applied to the willow warbler, and
to the long-tailed titmouse.
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Pine-crowned
(gcide) | Pine-clad \Pine"-clad`\, Pine-crowned \Pine"-crowned`\, a.
Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.
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Steeple-crowned
(gcide) | Steeple-crowned \Stee"ple-crowned`\ (-kround`), a.
1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.
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2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a
steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a
crown.
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This grave, bearded, sable-cloaked, and
steeple-crowned progenitor. --Hawthorne.
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Triple-crowned
(gcide) | Triple-crowned \Tri"ple-crowned`\, a.
Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.
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Uncrowned
(gcide) | Uncrowned \Uncrowned\
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yellow-crowned warbler
(gcide) | Myrtle \Myr"tle\ (m[~e]r"t'l), n. [F. myrtil bilberry, prop., a
little myrtle, from myrte myrtle, L. myrtus, murtus, Gr.
my`rtos; cf. Per. m[=u]rd.] (Bot.)
A species of the genus Myrtus, especially {Myrtus
communis}. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem,
eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head,
thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It
has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by
black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it
sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used
variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the
beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.
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Note: The name is also popularly but wrongly applied in
America to two creeping plants, the blue-flowered
periwinkle and the yellow-flowered moneywort. In the
West Indies several myrtaceous shrubs are called
myrtle.
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Bog myrtle, the sweet gale.
Crape myrtle. See under Crape.
Myrtle warbler (Zool.), a North American wood warbler
(Dendroica coronata); -- called also myrtle bird,
yellow-rumped warbler, and yellow-crowned warbler.
Myrtle wax. (Bot.) See Bayberry tallow, under Bayberry.
Sand myrtle, a low, branching evergreen shrub ({Leiophyllum
buxifolium}), growing in New Jersey and southward.
Wax myrtle (Myrica cerifera). See Bayberry.
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black-crowned night heron
(wn) | black-crowned night heron
n 1: night heron of both Old and New Worlds [syn: {black-crowned
night heron}, Nycticorax nycticorax] |
crowned head
(wn) | crowned head
n 1: a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary
right [syn: sovereign, crowned head, monarch] |
gold-crowned kinglet
(wn) | gold-crowned kinglet
n 1: American golden-crested kinglet [syn: {gold-crowned
kinglet}, Regulus satrata] |
high-crowned
(wn) | high-crowned
adj 1: (of a hat) having a high crown |
ruby-crowned kinglet
(wn) | ruby-crowned kinglet
n 1: American kinglet with a notable song and in the male a red
crown patch [syn: ruby-crowned kinglet, {ruby-crowned
wren}, Regulus calendula] |
ruby-crowned wren
(wn) | ruby-crowned wren
n 1: American kinglet with a notable song and in the male a red
crown patch [syn: ruby-crowned kinglet, {ruby-crowned
wren}, Regulus calendula] |
uncrowned
(wn) | uncrowned
adj 1: not having an (artificial) crown on a tooth; used
especially of molars and bicuspids; "uncrowned teeth
badly in need of attention" [ant: crowned]
2: not (especially not yet) provided with a crown; "the
uncrowned king" [syn: uncrowned, crownless] [ant:
crowned] |
white-crowned sparrow
(wn) | white-crowned sparrow
n 1: finch with black-and-white striped crown [syn: {white-
crowned sparrow}, Zonotrichia leucophrys] |
yellow-crowned night heron
(wn) | yellow-crowned night heron
n 1: North American night heron [syn: {yellow-crowned night
heron}, Nyctanassa violacea] |
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