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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.
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Cresting
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| the part of a classical entablature between the architrave and the cornice, usually decorated with sculpture in low relief |
| an area of wall enframed by an arch or vault |
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noun
1.
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
2.
the head or top of anything.
3.
a ridge or ridgelike formation.
4.
the foamy top of a wave.
5.
EXPANDthe point of highest flood, as of a river.
6.
the highest point or level; climax; culmination.
7.
a tuft or other natural growth on the top of the head of an animal, as the comb of a rooster.
8.
anything resembling or suggesting such a tuft.
9.
the ridge of the neck of a horse, dog, etc.
10.
the mane growing from this ridge.
11.
an ornament or heraldic device surmounting a helmet.
12.
a helmet.
13.
a ridge running from front to back along the top of a helmet; comb.
14.
Heraldry. a figure borne above the escutcheon in an achievement of arms, either on a helmet or by itself as a distinguishing device.
15.
Anatomy. a ridge, especially on a bone.
16.
a ridge or other prominence on any part of the body of an animal.
17.
Architecture. a cresting.
18.
COLLAPSEverb (used with object)
19.
to furnish with a crest.
20.
to serve as a crest for; crown or top.
21.
to reach the crest or summit of (a hill, mountain, etc.).
verb (used without object)
22.
to form or rise to a crest, as a wave or river.
23.
to reach the crest or highest level: Interest in the project has crested.
Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English creste < Old French < Latin crista
1275–1325; Middle English creste < Old French < Latin crista
Related forms
crest·ed, adjective
crest·less, adjective
sub·crest, noun
un·crest·ed, adjective
un·der·crest, noun
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Word Origin & History
crest
early 14c., from O.Fr. creste "tuft, comb," from L. crista "tuft, plume," perhaps related to word for "hair," but also used for crest of a cock or a helmet, replaced O.E. hris. Crestfallen (1580s) comes from cockfighting.
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Medical Dictionary
crest (krěst)
n.
A projection or ridge, especially of bone; cresta.
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Science Dictionary
crest  (krěst) Pronunciation Key
The part of a wave with greatest magnitude; the highest part of a wave. Compare trough. See more at wave. |
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cresting
decorative architectural repeat motif applied to the top of a wall, screen, or roof. Widely used during the Gothic period (the 12th through the 15th century), it was frequently found on the bressummer, or superstructure, of a church and on the cornice of the church rood screen, a partition separating the east end of the nave from the chancel, or area around the altar.
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