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

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

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

To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

f doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling. Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies. Dryden. He that keeps nor crust nor crumb. Shak. They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty. Macualay.

lain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. [Southwestern U. S.]

One who is an advocate of culture. The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does notJ. C. Shairp

Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy. Bouvier. Wharton.

ace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.

t as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.

to restrain; to confine; to keep in check. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Where pinching want must curbthy warm desires. Prior.

A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in curryng a horse.

Having curved teeth.

One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.

" Dryden. -- To cut stick, to make off clandestinely or precipitately. [Slang] -- To cut teeth, to put forth teeth; to have the teeth pierce through the gum and appear. -- To have cut one's eyeteeth, to be sharp and knowing. [Colloq.] -- To cut one's wisdom teeth, to come to years of discretion. -- To cut under, to…

A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.

aves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.

lue; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. [Obs.] I ne told no deyntee of her love. Chaucer.

me as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t. "Damascened armor." Beaconsfield. "Cast and damascened steel." Ure.

ce. -- Damascus iron, or Damascus twist, metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damasc appearance. -- Damascus steel. See Damask steel, under Dam…