Index of English words, starting with "cr"

(1) - Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
(2) - Crow (v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
(3) - Crow (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
(4) - Crow (v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
(5) - Crow (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
(6) - Crow (v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
(7) - Crow (v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.

(1) - Crowd (v. t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(2) - Crowd (n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
(3) - Crowd (v. t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
(4) - Crowd (v. t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
(5) - Crowd (v. t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
(6) - Crowd (v. i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
(7) - Crowd (v. i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
(8) - Crowd (v. t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(9) - Crowd (v. t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
(10) - Crowd (v. t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.
(11) - Crowd (v. t.) To push, to press, to shove.

(1) - Crown (n.) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
(2) - Crown () p. p. of Crow.
(3) - Crown (n.) A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.
(4) - Crown (n.) A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.
(5) - Crown (n.) The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.
(6) - Crown (n.) Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.
(7) - Crown (n.) Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.
(8) - Crown (n.) Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.
(9) - Crown (n.) The topmost part of anything; the summit.
(10) - Crown (n.) The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.
(11) - Crown (n.) The part of a hat above the brim.
(12) - Crown (n.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.
(13) - Crown (n.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.
(14) - Crown () of Crow
(15) - Crown (n.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.
(16) - Crown (n.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
(17) - Crown (n.) The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.
(18) - Crown (n.) The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
(19) - Crown (n.) The dome of a furnace.
(20) - Crown (n.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.
(21) - Crown (n.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
(22) - Crown (n.) A size of writing paper. See under Paper.
(23) - Crown (n.) A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.
(24) - Crown (n.) An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.
(25) - Crown (n.) To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
(26) - Crown (n.) To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
(27) - Crown (n.) To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
(28) - Crown (n.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
(29) - Crown (n.) Same as Corona.