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ision or insinuation. Cocked hat. (a) A hat with large, stiff flaps turned up to a peaked crown, thus making its form triangular; -- called also three-cornered hat. (b) A game similar to ninepins, except that only three pins are used, which are set up at the angles of a triangle.

ality with another. In once he come to be a cardinal, He'll make his cap coequal with the crown. Shak.

ne used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak.

A part or piece of anything; a portion. Cut two good collops out of the crown land. Fuller.

the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. Bacon. A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competititon. Dryden. There is no competition but for the second place. Dryden. Where competition does not act at all there is comple…

irmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise. Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs. Shak. Annd confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law. Ps. cv. 10.

orman (1027-1067) who invaded England, defeated Harold in the battle of Hastings, and was crowned king, in 1066.

h projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it. [R.] Contrate wheel. See Crown wheel.

mpact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale.

Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top. [Obs.] A copatain hat made on a Flemish block. Gascoigne.

Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house. Gwilt. Cornice ring, the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.

A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation. The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon. Milton.

Of or pertaining to a crown; ferming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland. "Coronary thorns." Bp. Pearson. The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus. Sir T. Browne.

Having or wearing a crown.

The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.

d at the place where the death occurred. [In England formerly also written and pronounced crowner.]

An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown. Without a star, a coronet, or garter. Goldsmith.

Having the form of a crown or coronet; resembling a crown.

A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus. Martyn.