the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
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the head or top of anything.
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a ridge or ridgelike formation.
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the foamy top of a wave.
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the point of highest flood, as of a river.
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the highest point or level; climax; culmination.
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a tuft or other natural growth on the top of the head of an animal, as the comb of a rooster.
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anything resembling or suggesting such a tuft.
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the ridge of the neck of a horse, dog, etc.
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the mane growing from this ridge.
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an ornament or heraldic device surmounting a helmet.
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a helmet.
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a ridge running from front to back along the top of a helmet; comb.
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Heraldry. a figure borne above the escutcheon in an achievement of arms, either on a helmet or by itself as a distinguishing device.
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Anatomy. a ridge, esp. on a bone.
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a ridge or other prominence on any part of the body of an animal.
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Architecture. a cresting.
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Machinery. (in a screw or other threaded object) the ridge or surface farthest from the body of the object and defined by the flanks of the thread. Compare root(def. 14a).
–verb (used with object)
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to furnish with a crest.
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to serve as a crest for; crown or top.
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to reach the crest or summit of (a hill, mountain, etc.).
–verb (used without object)
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to form or rise to a crest, as a wave or river.
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to reach the crest or highest level: Interest in the project has crested.
(of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination; "golden crested"; "crested iris"; "crested oriole"; "tufted duck"; "tufted loosestrife"
Crested Butte, CO (town, FIPS 18310) Location: 38.87011 N, 106.98310 W Population (1990): 878 (650 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 81224
Mount Crested Butte, CO (town, FIPS 52570) Location: 38.90785 N, 106.96624 W Population (1990): 264 (813 housing units) Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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.
Crest"ed\ (kr[e^]st"[e^]d), a. 1. Having a crest. But laced crested helm. --Dryden. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head. "The crested bird." --Dryden. 3. (Bott.) Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft. --Gray.
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