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One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.

A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.

mon, and used for mourning. [Obs.] Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. Shak.

A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.

The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown. Order of Dannebrog, an ancient Danish order of knighthood.

The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.

A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw. The loud daw, his throat displaying, draw The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller.

e; to lapse. [Obs.] Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.

rt of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown. Hallam.

ce to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.

Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper.

ed the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.

each on the other. Sir J. Reynolds. So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England. Bacon.

A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.

transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.

rom one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor. The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable to old constitutional requisitions. De Quincey.

at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager. Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit. Pope.

ad band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general. "The regal diadem." Milton.

achromatic telescope in which the colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.…

erence, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend. We 'll never differ with a crowded pit. Rowe.