Word Finder - crown

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A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

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• coronet
• diadem

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A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

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• garland
• wreath

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(by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

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the martyr's crown

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• award
• garland
• honor
• prize
• wreath

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Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

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• monarchy
• royalty

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(metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.

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(by extension) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).

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Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.

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The top part of something:

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A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.

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Splendor; culmination; acme.

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• completion
• culmination
• finish
• splendor

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Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.

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A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

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• bull
• caroon
• cartwheel
• caser
• coachwheel
• thick-un
• tosh
• tosheroon
• tush
• tusheroon

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The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.

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The top of a tree.

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The part of a tooth above the gums.

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• corona

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A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

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A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling

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The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet

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The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.

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(in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.

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In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.

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In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.

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A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location

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During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina

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A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening

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The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.

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A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

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A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.

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A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.

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The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

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To place a crown on the head of.

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To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.

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To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

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To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

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To declare (someone) a winner.

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Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.

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The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.

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To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.

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To hit on the head.

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To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.

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In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.

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“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.

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To widen the opening of the barrel.

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To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

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To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.

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Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

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crown prince

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Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

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a crown fire

It did not revert to the crown till his death in 1447.

The crown has a fall which may amount to as much as 18 in.

The Duke of Connaught's elder daughter, Princess Margaret (1882), was married in 1905 to the Crown Prince of Sweden, and died at Stockholm May 1 1920.

No appeal was yet given to the crown.

Even the way she wore her hair, with those braids wrapped around the top of her head like a crown and the long shiny blond curls falling around her shoulders and down her back – she wasn't simply beautiful.

Since its reorganization as a joint-stock company in 1890 many of the shares have been held by the crown, philanthropic institutions and other public bodies.

In 1219 the prior secured the right of holding a court there for all crown pleas and of sitting beside the justices itinerant, .and this led to serious collision between the monks and burgesses.

There are three pairs of cheek-teeth which are rooted, and show folds of enamel on the crown.

Atargatis, in the capacity of fro?uovxos, wears a mural crown, is the ancestor of the royal house, the founder of social and religious life, the goddess of generation and fertility (hence the prevalence of phallic emblems), and the inventor of useful appliances.

He resigned the crown to his brother Ramiro and went into a religious house.

But he none the less held his crown as an English king succeeding according to English law.

His first diplomatic work of importance was the negotiation of a marriage between the grand duchess Olga and the crown prince Charles of Wurttemberg.

He remained at Stuttgart for some years as Russian minister and confidential adviser of the crown princess.

On this theory the yellowbird or NorthAmerican "goldfinch," C. tristis, would seem, with its immediate allies, to rank among the highest forms of the group, and the pinegoldfinch, C. pinus, of the same country, to be one of the lowest the cock of the former being generally of a bright yellow hue, with black crown, tail and wings - the last conspicuously barred with white, while neither hens nor young exhibit any striations.

This again was not at the outset an exclusive right of the crown; it was common for a leader in battle to grant to some one not of his family, who had specially distinguished himself, the right to bear the whole or part of his coat of arms, differenced or undifferenced.

The claim of the heralds to make "gentry" depend on the bearing of coat-armour, and the right to this depend on grant or recognition by themselves as officers of the crown, is of comparatively late growth.

But in the more strictly crown, even if of quite humble origin, are "commanded" to court functions with their husbands.

Before 644, however, Sigeberht resigned the crown in favour of his brother Ecgric and retired to a monastery.

The head is extended from behind forwards, so that the crown (epicranium) is large, while the face (clypeus) is small.

Gregory was on his way to Rome to crown Rudolph and send him out on a great crusade in company with the kings of England, France, Aragon and Sicily, when he died at Arezzo on the 10th of January 1276.

Other noteworthy sources of revenue are trade licences, direct taxes on lands and forests, stamp duties, posts and telegraphs, indirect taxes on tobacco, sugar and other commodities, the crown forests, and land redemption payable annually by the peasants since 1861.

The allotments could be redeemed by them with the help of the crown, and then they were freed from all obligations to the landlord.

The crown paid the landlord in obligations representing the capitalized rent, and the peasants had to pay the crown, for forty-nine years, 6% interest on this capital.

The millions of roubles of redemption money received from the crown have been spent without any real or lasting agricultural improvements having been affected.

During the revolutionary ferment of 1848-49 he urged the Prussian king to refuse the imperial crown, co-operated with the Austrian emperor in suppressing the Hungarian insurrection, and compelled the Prussians to withdraw their support from the insurgents in Schleswig-Holstein.

The majority of this decided to approach the crown with a suggestion for a reform of the Russian system on the basis of a national representative assembly, an extension of local self-government, and wider guarantees for individual liberty.

On the 19th of March he laid before the House his programme of reforms, which included the emancipation of the peasants from the control of the communes and the handing over to them of the crown lands and imperial estates.

So after all his troubles he founded his dynasty firmly, and passed on the crown to his son with a better title.

The third type is the intermediate one between those two, followed by the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District railways, in London, where the railway has an arched roof, built usually at a sufficient distance below the surface of the street to permit the other subsurface structures to lie in the ground above the crown of the arch, and where the station platforms are from 20 to 30 ft.

He was beheaded on the 14th of September 258, the first African bishop to obtain the martyr's crown.

He deepened and extended his acquaintance with Greek, particularly with his favourite authors Homer and Xenophon; and, to crown all, he succeeded in achieving the third perusal of Blackstone's Commentaries.

The last of them seems to have been Pixodarus, after whose death the crown was seized by a Persian, Orontobates, who offered a vigorous resistance to Alexander the Great.

But his ambition was by no means satisfied, and he even aspired to the crown of the East Roman empire.

In George IV.'s reign were issued the so-called "lion shillings," bearing the royal crest, a crowned lion on a crown, a design reverted to in the coinage of Edward VII.

Owen Roe professed to be acting in the interest of Charles I.; but his real aim was the complete independence of Ireland, while the AngloNorman Catholics represented by the council desired to secure religious liberty and an Irish constitution under the crown of England.

His elder brother had been the husband of the heiress Sibylla; and on the death of Sibylla, who had carried the crown to Guy de Lusignan by her second marriage, Conrad married her younger sister, Isabella, now the heiress of the kingdom, and claimed the crown (1190).

South of the central court were found parts of a relief in the same material, showing a personage with a fleur-de-lis crown and collar.

The sister of the new sovereign, Princess Alexandra, had a few months before (loth March) married the prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII., and his father succeeded to the crown of Denmark in the following November.

Adopting the motto, "My strength is the love of my people," he ruled in strict accordance with constitutional principles, though not hesitating to make the fullest use of the royal prerogative when the intervention of the crown seemed to be required by circumstances.

North Carolina has been governed under the charters of 1663 and 1665 (1663-1729), under commissions and instructions from the crown (1729-1776), and under the state constitutions of the 18th of December 1776 (amended in 1835, in 1856, and in the Secession Convention of 1861) and of April 1868 (amended in 1872-1873, 1875, 2 1819 i 1888 and 1899).

The political history during the royal period is, like that of the other colonies, the story of a constant struggle between the representatives of the people and the representatives of the crown.

The " Mecklenburg Declaration," which it is alleged was passed on the 10th of the same month by the same committee, " dissolves the political bonds " which have connected the county with the mother country, " absolves " the citizens of that county " from all allegiance to the British Crown," declares them " a free and independent people," and abounds in other phrases which closely resemble phrases in the great Declaration of the 4th of July 1776.

In general it rather resembles a closed crown, consisting of a circlet from which rise two arches intersecting each other at right angles.

Possibly, as its form suggests, it is based on the imperial crown and symbolized at the outsgt the quasi - sovereignty over the rayah population which Mahommed II.

He was then a candidate for the Polish crown; and having purchased the support of the emperor Charles VI.

It was not separated from the world of ideas, of which it was represented as either the crown or the sum.

Minas Geraes at first formed part of the capitania of Sao Paulo, but in 1720 it became a separate government and was brought more directly under the Portuguese crown.

In 1809 its exclusive trading rights were taken away by Parliament, but its administrative status was thus made clearer, and when after the mutiny of 1857 it was desirable to define British authority in India there seemed nothing unnatural in declaring it to be a possession of the crown.

In November 1232 the earldom of Chester was granted to his nephew John the Scot, earl of Huntingdon (c. 1207-1237), and in 1246, nine years after John had died childless, it was annexed to the English crown "lest so fair a dominion should be divided among women."

In 1254 Prince Edward, afterwards King Edward I., was created earl of Chester, and since this date the earldom has always been held by the heirs apparent to the English crown with the single exception of Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester.