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-- Crown piece. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown Prince, the heir apparent to a crown or throne. -- Crown saw. See in the Vocabulary. -- Crown scab (Far.), a cancerous sore formed round the corners of a horse's hoof. -- Crown sheet, the flat plate which forms the top of the furnace or fire box of an internally fire…

To seat or place on, or as on a cushion. Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity. Bolingbroke.

At a high rate or price; grievously. He buys his mistress dearly with his throne. Dryden.

spired for constitutional government against the Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the throne at the death of Alexander I., in December, 1825; -- called also Dekabrist.

The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne. Fox.

To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office. A tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed. Prynne.

Dethronement. [Obs.] Speed.

To dethrone or unthrone. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

to deny. Then they, who brother's better claim disown, Expel their parents, and usurp the throne. Dryden.

er of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively. His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne. Dryden. Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy. Howell.

To dethrone. [Obs.] Spenser.

A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen. Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. Milton.

Milton. By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Col. i. 16.

A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.

Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne. Young.

lso; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic] 'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love. Prior. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.

vated. With upper lip elate. Fenton. And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.

al things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.

The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop. There openly enthronized as the very elected king. Knolles.