What is "crown"

Crow \Crow\ (kr[=o]), v. i. [imp. Crew (kr[udd]) or Crowed (kr[=o]d); p. p. Crowed ( Crown (kr[=o]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Crowing.] [AS. cr[=a]wan; akin to D. kraijen, G. kr[aum]hen, cf. Lith. groti to croak. [root]24. Cf. Crake.]

1. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. ``The cock had crown.''
   --Bayron.

   The morning cock crew loud.
   --Shak.

2. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

3. To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.

   The sweetest little maid, That ever crowed for kisses.
   --Tennyson.

   To crow over, to exult over a vanquished antagonist.

   Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem.
   --Bp. Hall.

Crown \Crown\ (kr?n), p. p. of Crow. [Obs.]

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.

   Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year.
   --Dryden.

   Crown him, and say, ``Long live our emperor.''
   --Shak.

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

   Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor.
   --Ps. viii. 5.

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

   Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill.
   --Byron.

   One day shall crown the alliance.
   --Shak.

   To crown the whole, came a proposition.
   --Motley.

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.

5. (Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

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

Crown \Crown\ (kroun), n. [OE. corone, coroun, crune, croun, OF. corone, corune, F. couronne, fr. L. corona crown, wreath; akin to Gr. korw`nh anything curved, crown; cf. also L. curvus curved, E. curve, curb, Gael. cruinn round, W. crwn. Cf. Cornice, Corona, Coroner, Coronet.]

1. 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. ``An olive branch and laurel crown.''
   --Shak.

   They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
   --1 Cor. ix. 25.

   Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
   --Rev. ii. 10.

2. A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.

   Note: Nobles wear coronets; the triple crown of the pope is usually called a tiara. The crown of England is a circle of gold with crosses, fleurs-de-lis, and imperial arches, inclosing a crimson velvet cap, and ornamented with thousands of diamonds and precious stones.

3. The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.

   Parliament may be dissolved by the demise of the crown.
   --Blackstone.

   Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown.
   --Macaulay.

4. Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.

   There is a power behind the crown greater than the crown itself.
   --Junius.

5. Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.

   The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
   --Prov. xvi. 31.

   A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
   --Prov. xvi. 4.

6. Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.

   Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.
   --Milton.

7. The topmost part of anything; the summit.

   The steepy crown of the bare mountains.
   --Dryden.

8. 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.

   From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches.
   --Shak.

   Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown.
   --Bunyan.

9. The part of a hat above the brim.

10. (Anat.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.

11. (Arch.) 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.

12. (Bot.) Same as Corona.

13. (Naut.)

    1. That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

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

    3. pl. The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.
       --Totten.

14. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

15. The dome of a furnace.

16. (Geom.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.

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

18. A size of writing paper. See under Paper.

19. 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.

20. An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.

    Crown of aberration (Astron.), a spurious circle around the true circle of the sun.

    Crown antler (Zo["o]l.), the topmost branch or tine of an antler; also, an antler having a cuplike top, with tines springing from the rim.

    Crown bar, one of the bars which support the crown sheet of steam-boiler furnace.

    Crown glass. See under Glass.

    Crown imperial. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary.

    Crown jewels, the jewels appertaining to the sovereign while wearing the crown. [Eng.] ``She pawned and set to sale the crown jewels.''
    --Milton.

    Crown land, land belonging to the crown, that is, to the sovereign.

    Crown law, the law which governs criminal prosecutions.

    Crown lawyer, one employed by the crown, as in criminal cases. [Eng.]

    Crown octavo. See under Paper.

    Crown office. See in the Vocabulary.

    Crown paper. See under Paper.

    Crown piece. See in the Vocabulary.

    Crown Prince, the heir apparent to a crown or throne.

    Crown saw. See in the Vocabulary.

    Crown scab (Far.), a cancerous sore formed round the corners of a horse's hoof.

    Crown sheet, the flat plate which forms the top of the furnace or fire box of an internally fired steam boiler.

    Crown shell. (Zo["o]l.) See Acorn-shell.

    Crown side. See Crown office.

    Crown tax (Eccl. Hist.), a golden crown, or its value, which was required annually from the Jews by the king of Syria, in the time of the Maccabees.
    --1 Macc. x. 20.

    Crown wheel. See in the Vocabulary.

    Crown work. See in the Vocabulary.

    Pleas of the crown (Engl. law), criminal actions.

late 12c., from Old French coroner, from corone (see crown (n.)). Related: Crowned; crowning. The latter in its sense of "that makes complete" is from 1650s.

early 12c., "royal crown," from Anglo-French coroune, Old French corone (13c., Modern French couronne), from Latin corona "crown," originally "wreath, garland," related to Greek korone "anything curved, kind of crown." Old English used corona, directly from Latin.\n

\nExtended to coins bearing the imprint of a crown (early 15c.), especially the British silver 5-shilling piece. Also monetary units in Iceland, Sweden (krona), Norway, Denmark (krone), and formerly in German Empire and Austria-Hungary (krone). Meaning "top of the skull" is from c.1300. Crown-prince is 1791, a translation of German kronprinz.

Etymology 1

1. 1 Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown. 2 Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees. n. 1 A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem. 2 (context heraldry English) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry 3 A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor. 4 (label en by extension) Any reward of victory or a mark of honor. 5 Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it. 6 The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state. 7 (context by extension especially in legal English) The state, the government (headed by a monarch). 8 The topmost part of the head. 9 The highest part of a hill. 10 The top section of a hat, above the brim. 11 The raised centre of a road. 12 The highest part of an arch. 13 Splendor; culmination; acme. 14 Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (context translation English) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone 15 # (context historical English) particularly, a former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings. 16 (context botany English) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet. 17 (context forestry English) The top of a tree. 18 (context anatomy English) The part of a tooth above the gums. 19 (context dentistry English) A prosthetic covering for a tooth. 20 (context nautical English) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling 21 (context nautical English) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet 22 (context nautical English) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line. 23 (context nautical in the plural English) The bights formed by the turns of a cable. 24 (context paper English) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches. 25 (context chemistry English) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location 26 (context medical English) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina 27 (context firearms English) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening 28 The upper range of facets in a rose diamond. 29 The dome of a furnace. 30 (context geometry English) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters. 31 (context religion English) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure. 32 A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat. 33 (context: African-American colloquialism) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; elliptical for church crown. v

2. 1 To place a crown on the head of. 2 To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, et

3. 3 To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. 4 To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. 5 To declare (someone) a winner. Etymology 2

   vb. (context obsolete English) (past participle of crow English)

1. v. invest with regal power; enthrone; "The prince was crowned in Westminster Abbey" [syn: coronate]

2. be the culminating event; "The speech crowned the meeting" [syn: top]

3. form the topmost part of; "A weather vane crowns the building"

4. put an enamel cover on; "crown my teeth"

A crown is a traditional headwear worn by a monarch(King/Queen) or by a deity, for whom the crown traditionally represents power, legitimacy, victory, triumph, honor, and glory, as well as immortality, righteousness, and resurrection. In art, the crown may be shown being offered to those on Earth by angels. Apart from the traditional form, crowns also may be in the form of a wreath and be made of flowers, oak leaves, or thorns and be worn by others, representing what the coronation part aims to symbolize with the specific crown. In religious art, a crown of stars is used similarly to a halo. Crowns worn by rulers often contain jewels.

The British crown, the successor to the English crown and the Scottish dollar, came into being with the Union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland in 1707. As with the English coin, its value was five shillings.

Always a heavy silver coin weighing about one ounce, during the 19th and 20th centuries the Crown declined from being a real means of exchange to being a coin rarely spent and minted for commemorative purposes only. In that format it has continued to be minted, even following decimalisation of the British currency in 1971. However, as the result of inflation the value of the coin was revised upwards in 1990 to five pounds.

Crown may refer to:

The crown is the top of the head, or the whole head.

is a manga series written by Shinji Wada and illustrated by You Higuri. Crown was serialized in the shōjo manga magazine, Princess Gold magazine around 2005. The 14 chapters and 6 volumes were published in Japan, France, Germany and other countries. The first 2 volumes were published in the United States in 2009 by Go! Comi, which officially shut down in May 2010.

The crown, originally known as the " crown of the double rose", was an English coin introduced as part of King Henry VIII's monetary reform of 1526, with a value of five Shillings.

The crown is a monetary unit ( currency) used in the countries of Czech Republic, Denmark (including the territory of Faroe Islands and Greenland), Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It was formerly also used by Slovakia and Estonia until 2009 and 2011, respectively.

"Crown" is a song by American rapper Jay-Z, recorded for his studio album Magna Carta... Holy Grail.

A crown is a type of dental restoration which completely caps or encircles a tooth or dental implant. Crowns are often needed when a large cavity threatens the ongoing health of a tooth. They are typically bonded to the tooth using a dental cement. Crowns can be made from many materials, which are usually fabricated using indirect methods. Crowns are often used to improve the strength or appearance of teeth. While inarguably beneficial to dental health, the procedure and materials can be relatively expensive.

The most common method of crowning a tooth involves using a dental impression of a prepared tooth by a dentist to fabricate the crown outside of the mouth. The crown can then be inserted at a subsequent dental appointment. Using this indirect method of tooth restoration allows use of strong restorative materials requiring time-consuming fabrication methods requiring intense heat, such as casting metal or firing porcelain which would not be possible to complete inside the mouth. Because of the expansion properties, the relatively similar material costs, and the cosmetic benefit, many patients choose to have their crown fabricated with gold.

As new technology and materials science has evolved, computers are increasingly becoming a part of crown and a fabrication, such as in CAD/CAM dentistry.

A Crown is often an emblem of the sovereign state, a monarch's government, or items endorsed by it; see The Crown. Crowns may also be used by some republics.

A specific type of crown (or coronet for peerage in the British Isles) is employed in heraldry under strict rules. Indeed, some monarchies never had a physical crown, just a heraldic representation, as in the constitutional kingdom of Belgium.

Crowns are also often used as symbols of religious status or veneration, by divinities (or their representation such as a statue) or by their representatives, e.g. the Black Crown of the Karmapa Lama, sometimes used a model for wider use by devotees.

A crown can be a charge in a coat of arms, or set upon the shield to signify the status of its owner. So the royal crown which shows a Christian cross on a coat of arms means that his or her holder has power and direct protection from God; if you find crown of the Duke, the owner is not Duke necessarily rather someone who has received power and protection with its power. Crowns bearing bird feathers refer to ancient beliefs, according to which the birds had divine qualities like angels communicated with the worlds beyond the sky. In Italy there are rings that show the city walls used symbolically to remember the function that had the walls to protect the city. Thus the crown is a symbol of power and protection received from someone or something or means that the owner of the crown you show guarantees you power and protection.

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In dentistry, crown refers to the anatomical area of teeth, usually covered by enamel. The crown is usually visible in the mouth after developing below the gingiva and then erupting into place. If part of the tooth gets chipped or broken, a dentist can apply an artificial crown. Crowns are used most commonly to entirely cover a damaged tooth or cover an implant. Bridges are are also used to cover a space if one or more teeth is missing. They are cemented to natural teeth or implants surrounding the space where the tooth once stood. There are various materials that can be used including a type of cement or stainless steel. The cement crowns look like regular teeth while the stainless steel crowns are silver or gold.

The crown of a plant refers to the totality of an individual plant's aboveground parts, including stems, leaves, and reproductive structures. A plant community canopy consists of one or more plant crowns growing in a given area.

The crown of a woody plant ( tree, shrub, liana) is the branches, leaves, and reproductive structures extending from the trunk or main stems.

Shapes of crowns are highly variable. The major types for trees are the excurrent branching habit resulting in conoid shapes and decurrent (deliquescent) branching habit, resulting in round shapes. Crowns are also characterized by their width, depth, surface area, volume, and density. Measurements of crowns are important in quantifying and qualifying plant health, growth stage, and efficiency.

Major functions of the crown include light energy assimilation, carbon dioxide absorption and release of oxygen via photosynthesis, energy release by respiration, and movement of water to the atmosphere by transpiration. These functions are performed by the leaves. Branches of the crown provide mechanical support to distribute the leaves efficiently and serve as conduits for resources ( water, nutrients, photosynthates) to perform these functions.

The Australian Crown was a coin used in the Commonwealth of Australia prior to decimalisation in 1966. The denomination was only minted in 1937 and 1938. It was of similar size and weight to the British Crown and was made of sterling silver for both its years of production. Like the British Crown, the Australian Crown was worth five shillings.

The Crown was originally intended to commemorate the ascension of King Edward VIII; however, due to his abdication, it was instead struck to commemorate the ascension of King George VI. The Crown quickly lost its commemorative appeal and its lack of popularity led to its production's being terminated. 1,008,000 Australian Crowns were minted in 1937 and 101,600 were minted in 1938, making the 1938 much more valuable today.

In very fine condition, a 1937 crown is worth about $35, whereas the 1938 crown in very fine condition would be worth about $135.