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y or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate (called Governor) appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.

The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.

See Crown office.

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

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.

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

gary, 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.

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.

e suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.

The act of drowning. [R.]

One who, or that which, drowns.