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A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee. Blackstone.

The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow. [Prov. Eng.]

ar negro song and dance, the refrain of which is "Wheel about and turn about and jump Jim Crow," produced in 1835 by T. D. Rice, a famous negro minstrel. [Slang, U. S.]

A machine for bending or straightening rails.

The millionth part of one weber.

The common European crow. [Prov. Eng.]

To crow, exult, or boast, over; to overpower. Spenser. Shak.

To crowd too much.

a paragraph mark, . [Obs.] Tusser.

Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.

See Hooded crow, under Hooded.

Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryden.

A scroll. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

The chough. [Ireland]

Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.

Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.

To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone. He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. Shak.

The dipper.

uttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England. Great water crowfoot, an American water plant (Ranunculus multifidus), having deep yellow flowers.

illing or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.