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A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the copple-crown the lapwing has." T. Randolph. -- Cop"ple-crowned`, a.

Small gabions. Brande & C.

A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

er possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. Blackstone.

g to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.

[Archaic] Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson.

To cheat; to defrand; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. He had cozened the world by fine phrases. Macualay. Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. Locke. Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. C…

to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services. Brande & C.

ry one of its pursuits: Beauty, in letters and the arts; Truth, in history and sciences. Brande & C. By criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well. Dryden.

The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. Watts.

To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly. Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro. Dickens.

onging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. Prescott.

he glacis, or the summit of the breach. To crown a knot (Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands over and under each other.

A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah.

, etc.; to carve; to hew out. Why should a man. whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster Shak. Loopholes cut through thickest shade. Milton.

having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.

about, or up and down; to dandle. To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind. Shak. Thy grandsire loved thee well; Many a time he danced thee on his knee. Shak. To dance attendance, to come and go obsequiously; to be or remain in waiting, at the beck and call of another, with a view to please or gain favor. A man of h…

One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.

A picture coarsely executed. Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture . . . 'T is a melancholy daub, my lord. Sterne.