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–noun

1.	Architecture. a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline.

2.	Furniture. ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it.

3.	a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor.

[Origin: 1865–70; crest + -ing¹

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n.

1. A usually ornamental tuft, ridge, or similar projection on the head of a bird or other animal.
2. An elevated, irregularly toothed ridge on the stigmas of certain flowers.
3. A ridge or an appendage on a plant part, such as on a leaf or petal.
4. A plume used as decoration on top of a helmet.
5. A helmet.
6. Heraldry A device placed above the shield on a coat of arms.
7. A representation of such a device.
8. The top, as of a hill or wave.
9. The highest or culminating point; the peak: the crest of a flood; at the crest of her career.
1. A plume used as decoration on top of a helmet.
2. A helmet.
3. Heraldry A device placed above the shield on a coat of arms.
4. A representation of such a device.
5. The top, as of a hill or wave.
6. The highest or culminating point; the peak: the crest of a flood; at the crest of her career.
1. Heraldry A device placed above the shield on a coat of arms.
2. A representation of such a device.
3. The top, as of a hill or wave.
4. The highest or culminating point; the peak: the crest of a flood; at the crest of her career.
1. The top, as of a hill or wave.
2. The highest or culminating point; the peak: the crest of a flood; at the crest of her career.
The ridge on a roof.

v. crest·ed, crest·ing, crests

v. tr.

To decorate or furnish with a crest.
To reach the crest of: crested the ridge.

v. intr.

To form into a crest or crests: waves cresting over the seawall.
To reach a crest: The swollen river crested at 9 P.M.

[Middle English creste, from Old French, from Latin crista; see sker-² in Indo-European roots.]

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crest·ing Audio Help (krěs'tĭng) Pronunciation Key
n. An ornamental ridge, as on top of a wall or roof.

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Cresting

Crest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crested; p. pr. & vb. n. Cresting.]

1. 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. --Shak.

Mid groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow. --Wordsworth.

2. 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. --Spenser.

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