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/krˈɛstəd/ Listen

verb

Crest v. t. (past & past part. crested; pres. part. cresting)

To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for. "His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm Crested the world." "Mid groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow."

To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes. "Like as the shining sky in summer's night,... Is crested with lines of fiery light."

Crest v. i. To form a crest.

adjective

Crested adj.

Having a crest. "But laced crested helm."

(Zool.) Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head. "The crested bird."

(Bott.) Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.

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Etymology of 'Crested'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crested" Quotes from Famous Books

... sharp enough, nodded. But as he turned to hand Hugh some garment his eye fell upon the swan-crested helm that was still nailed by the long war-shaft with two black feathers and one white to the carved olivewood post ...

— Red Eve • H. Rider Haggard

... the dimensions of trees indeed, with the very fern foliage she was accustomed to in low herbaceous growth at home; only magnified superbly. There were elegant palms, too, with other evergreens, and magnificent creepers; and floating out and in among them in great numbers were gay red-crested cockatoos and other tropical birds. The character of the scenery was exquisite. Eleanor saw one or two of the fair lake-like lagoons of that district, eat of the fish from them; for they made a kind of gypsey expedition, camping out and providing ...

— The Old Helmet, Volume II • Susan Warner

... you can distinguish the guttural hurrahs of the Austrians, and the broken oaths of the French troopers. The trenches are piled with dead bodies, the trumpets sound the attack, the survivors, obeying an irresistible impulse, spring to the front. The ridges are crested with human masses swaying to and fro, and the first red uniform is seen in the streets of Montebello, in relief against the chalky facades bristling with Austrian guns, pouring forth their ammunition on the enemy below. The soldiers burst into the ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... Tesuque Indians, contrary to what might be expected or would popularly be conceived, there is not riotry of color, but the costumes are toned rather in the sombre hues of the animal in question, and after the tone of the dark flanks of the mountains crested and avalanched with snows, looking more like buffaloes buried knee deep in white drifts than anything else one may think of. They bring you the sense of the power of the buffalo personality, the formidable beast that once stampeded the prairies ...

— Adventures in the Arts - Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets • Marsden Hartley

... sweetly in the silence of the forest, and the great, slow-moving river. And lo! as she sang thus, the wild brutes grew still, and seemed to listen as though they were charmed. Yes, even a snake wriggled out from between the rocks and listened, waving its crested head to ...

— Morning Star • H. Rider Haggard

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