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A European bird (Nucifraga caryocatactes), allied to the magpie and crow. Its color is dark brown, spotted with white. It feeds on nuts, seeds, and insects.

Of or pertaining to a siege. Obsidional crown (Rom.Antiq.), a crown bestowed upon a general who raised the siege of a beleaguered place, or upon one who held out against a siege.

ion, physical or moral. If all obstacles were cut away. And that my path were even to the crown. Shak.

A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof. G. Gregory.

Offer; proposal; overture. [Obs.] More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.

To crowd together; to fill with obstructions; to block up. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines. Jer. Taylor.

Filled; crowded. [Obs.] Johnson.

onysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held. Drayton.

In the United States, Seiurus aurocapillus; -- called also golden-crowned thrush.

To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison.

To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor. My days with toil are overwrought. Longfellow.

ion; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.] Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.

ic Church. "Papal Christians." Bp. Burnet. Papal cross. See Illust. 3 of Cross. -- Papal crown, the tiara.

nging to the order Passifloreæ. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon- shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and c…

trifling matters, as when we beg pardon for interrupting a man, or for jostling him in a crowd. The civil magistrate also grants a pardon, and not forgiveness. The two words are, therefore, very clearly distinguished from each other in most cases which relate to the common concerns of life.

The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head. [Now generally used in contempt or ridicule.] His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. Ps. vii. 16. Fat paunches have lean pate. Shak.

d; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise. [R.] Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown. Shak. As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness. Donne.

In utter confusion; with confused violence. "Men, horses, chariots, crowded pellmell." Milton.