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Same as King-post.

A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.

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.

One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL.

chief end. [Obs.] O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm . . . . Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end. Shak.

ngary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.

Without a crown.

A coronet. [Poetic] Sir W. Scott.

A coin [In sense (b) properly crown piece.] See Crown, 19.

A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.

A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas.

See Corriestep.

The top stone of the gable end of a house. Halliwell.

An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.

An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot. "The tufted crowtoe." Milton.

The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.

The time at which cooks first crow; the early morning.

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

To deprive of a crown; to discrown. [R.] Hakewill.

To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.