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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.

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

ary, 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.

To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.

Act of disowning. [R.]

The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear. And the first down begins to shade his face. Dryden.

A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs. [Eng.] Knight.

With the wind.

To bear down; to depress.