Knots. a knot made by interweaving the strands at the end of a rope, often made as the beginning of a back splice or as the first stage in tying a more elaborate knot.
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a crownpiece.
–verb (used with object)
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to invest with a regal crown, or with regal dignity and power.
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to place a crown or garland upon the head of.
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to honor or reward; invest with honor, dignity, etc.
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to be at the top or highest part of.
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to complete worthily; bring to a successful or triumphant conclusion: The award crowned his career.
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Informal. to hit on the top of the head: She crowned her brother with a picture book.
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to give to (a construction) an upper surface of convex section or outline.
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to cap (a tooth) with a false crown.
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Checkers. to change (a checker) into a king after having safely reached the last row.
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Knots. to form a crown on (the end of a rope).
–verb (used without object)
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Medicine/Medical. (of a baby in childbirth) to reach a stage in delivery where the largest diameter of the fetal head is emerging from the pelvic outlet.
Origin: 1125–75; ME coroune, cr(o)une < AF coroune < L corōna wreath; see corona
to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
2.
to take in so as to envelop; withdraw from sight; assimilate or absorb: He was swallowed by the crowd.
3.
to accept without question or suspicion.
4.
to accept without opposition; put up with: to swallow an insult.
5.
to accept for lack of an alternative: Consumers will have to swallow new price hikes.
6.
to suppress (emotion, a laugh, a sob, etc.) as if by drawing it down one's throat.
7.
to take back; retract: to swallow one's words.
8.
to enunciate poorly; mutter: He swallowed his words.
–verb (used without object)
9.
to perform the act of swallowing.
–noun
10.
the act or an instance of swallowing.
11.
a quantity swallowed at one time; a mouthful: Take one swallow of brandy.
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capacity for swallowing.
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Also called crown, throat.Nautical,Machinery. the space in a block, between the groove of the sheave and the shell, through which the rope runs.
Origin: bef. 1000; (v.) ME swalwen, var. of swelwen, OE swelgan; c. G schwelgen; akin to ON svelgja; (n.) ME swalwe, swolgh throat, abyss, whirlpool, OE geswelgh (see y-); akin to MLG swelch, OHG swelgo glutton, ON svelgr whirlpool, devourer
co·ro·na (kə-rō'nə) n.
pl.co·ro·nas or co·ro·nae (-nē)
Astronomy
A faintly colored luminous ring appearing to surround a celestial body visible through a haze or thin cloud, especially such a ring around the moon or sun, caused by diffraction of light from suspended matter in the intervening medium. Also called aureole.
The luminous irregular envelope of highly ionized gas outside the chromosphere of the sun.
Architecture The projecting top part of a cornice.
A cigar with a long tapering body and blunt ends.
Anatomy The crownlike upper portion of a bodily part or structure, such as the top of the head.
Botany A crown-shaped, funnel-shaped, or trumpet-shaped outgrowth or appendage of the perianth of certain flowers, such as the daffodil or the spider lily. Also called crown.
Electricity A faint glow enveloping the high-field electrode in a corona discharge, often accompanied by streamers directed toward the low-field electrode.
[Latin corōna; see crown.]
crown (kroun) n.
An ornamental circlet or head covering, often made of precious metal set with jewels and worn as a symbol of sovereignty.
often Crown
The power, position, or empire of a monarch or of a state governed by constitutional monarchy.
The monarch as head of state.
A coin stamped with a crown or crowned head on one side.
Abbr. cr. A silver coin formerly used in Great Britain and worth five shillings.
Any one of several coins, such as the koruna, the krona, or the krone, having a name that means "crown."
The top or highest part of the head.
The head itself.
The part of a tooth that is covered by enamel and projects beyond the gum line.
An artificial substitute for the natural crown of a tooth.
The upper part of a tree, which includes the branches and leaves.
The part of a plant, usually at ground level, where the stem and roots merge.
The persistent, mostly underground base of a perennial herb.
To bring to completion or successful conclusion; consummate: crowned the event with a lavish reception.
Dentistry To put a crown on (a tooth).
Games To make (a piece in checkers that has reached the last row) into a king by placing another piece upon it.
Informal To hit on the head.
v.
intr. To reach a stage in labor when a large segment of the fetal scalp is visible at the vaginal orifice. Used of a fetus.
[Middle English crowne, from Anglo-Norman coroune, from Latin corōna, wreath, garland, crown, from Greek korōnē, anything curved, kind of crown, from korōnos, curved; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.]
tv. to hit someone on the head. : The clerk crowned the robber with a champagne bottle.
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swallow
n. a puff of cigarette smoke. : He took just one swallow and started coughing.
tv. to believe or accept something. (See also eat (sth) up.) : Nobody's gonna swallow that nonsense.
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Word Origin & History
crow (n.)
O.E. crawe, imitative of bird's cry. Phrase eat crow is probably based on the notion that the bird is edible when boiled but hardly agreeable; first attested 1851, Amer.Eng., but said to date to War of 1812 (Walter Etecroue turns up 1361 in the Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London). Crow's foot "wrinkle around the corner of the eye" is c.1374. Crowbar (c.1400) is either from resemblance to a crow's foot or possibly from crows, from O.Fr. cros, pl. of croc "hook." Phrase as the crow flies first recorded 1800. The Crow Indian tribe of the American Midwest is a rough translation of their own name, Apsaruke.
crown
1111, from Anglo-Fr. coroune, from O.Fr. corone, from L. corona "crown," originally "wreath, garland," related to Gk. korone "anything curved, kind of crown." (O.E. used corona, directly from L.) Extended to coins bearing the imprint of a crown (1430), especially the British silver 5-shilling piece. Also monetary units in Iceland, Sweden (krona), Norway, Denmark (krone), and formerly in Ger. Empire and Austria-Hungary (krone). Meaning "top of the skull" is from c.1300. The verb is from c.1175. Crown-prince is 1791, a translation of Ger. kronprinz.
swallow (v.)
"take in through the throat," O.E. swelgan (class III strong verb; past tense swealg, pp. swolgen), from P.Gmc. *swelkh-/*swelg- (cf. O.S. farswelgan, O.N. svelgja "to swallow," M.Du. swelghen, Du. zwelgen "to gulp, swallow," O.H.G. swelahan "to swallow," Ger. schwelgan "to revel"). Connections outside Gmc. uncertain. Sense of "consume, destroy" is attested from c.1340. Cognate with O.N. svelgr "whirlpool," lit. "devourer, swallower." Meaning "to accept without question" is from 1591. The noun meaning "an act of swallowing" is recorded from 1822.
Main Entry: 1crown Pronunciation: 'kraun Function: noun 1: the topmost part of the skull or head 2: the part of atooth external to the gum or an artificial substitute for this
Main Entry: 2crown Function: transitive verb : to put an artificial crown on (a tooth) crownintransitive senses in childbirth: to appear at the vaginal opening —used of the first part (as the crown of the head) of the infant to appear crowned>
Main Entry: 2swallow Function: noun 1: an act of swallowing 2: an amount that can be swallowed at one time
(1.) Denotes the plate of gold in the front of the high priest's mitre (Ex. 29:6; 39:30). The same Hebrew word so rendered (ne'zer) denotes the diadem worn by Saul in battle (2 Sam. 1:10), and also that which was used at the coronation of Joash (2 Kings 11:12). (2.) The more general name in Hebrew for a crown is _'atarah_, meaning a "circlet." This is used of crowns and head ornaments of divers kinds, including royal crowns. Such was the crown taken from the king of Ammon by David (2 Sam. 12:30). The crown worn by the Assyrian kings was a high mitre, sometimes adorned with flowers. There are sculptures also representing the crowns worn by the early Egyptian and Persian kings. Sometimes a diadem surrounded the royal head-dress of two or three fillets. This probably signified that the wearer had dominion over two or three countries. In Rev. 12:3; 13:1, we read of "many crowns," a token of extended dominion. (3.) The ancient Persian crown (Esther 1:11; 2:17; 6:8) was called _kether_; i.e., "a chaplet," a high cap or tiara. Crowns were worn sometimes to represent honour and power (Ezek. 23:42). They were worn at marriages (Cant. 3:11; Isa. 61:10, "ornaments;" R.V., "a garland"), and at feasts and public festivals. The crown was among the Romans and Greeks a symbol of victory and reward. The crown or wreath worn by the victors in the Olympic games was made of leaves of the wild olive; in the Pythian games, of laurel; in the Nemean games, of parsley; and in the Isthmian games, of the pine. The Romans bestowed the "civic crown" on him who saved the life of a citizen. It was made of the leaves of the oak. In opposition to all these fading crowns the apostles speak of the incorruptible crown, the crown of life (James 1:12; Rev. 2:10) "that fadeth not away" (1 Pet. 5:4, Gr. amarantinos; comp. 1:4). Probably the word "amaranth" was applied to flowers we call "everlasting," the "immortal amaranth."
[kroun] 
) the sovereign as head of the state, or the supreme governing power of a state under a monarchical government.