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The topmost part of anything; the summit. The steepy crown of the bare mountains. Dryden.

Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing glory crowned. Milton.

celand, and used in certain optical instruments, as the polariscope. -- Rock crystal, or Mountain crystal, any transparent crystal of quartz, particularly of limpid or colorless quartz.

Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak.

A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc. Knight.

The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under Absolute. -- Angle of curvature (Geom.), one that expresses the…

own. (a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to prostrate. "Timber . . . cut down in the mountains of Cilicia." Knolles. (b) To put down; to abash; to humble, [Obs] "So great is his natural eloquence, that he cuts doun the finest orator." Addison (c) To lessen; to retrench; to curtail; as, to cut down expenses. (d) (N…

es, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.

A low place between hills; a vle or valley. Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend. Thomson.

A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day. [Local, Eng. & Scott]

To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.

and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut. The lion of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they where debruised in token of his illegitimate birth. Macaulay.…

The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

th the lower slope of the roof. -- Deck roof (Arch.), a nearly flat roof which is not surmounted by parapet walls. -- Deck transom (Shipbuilding), the transom into which the deck is framed. -- To clear the decks (Naut.), to remove every unnecessary incumbrance in preparation for battle; to prepare for action. -- To…

crease; diminution; waste; loss. Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.

process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion. Make fair deductions; see to what they mount. Pope.

made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc. Addison.