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One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL.

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

gary, 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.

A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas.

See Corriestep.

The top stone of the gable end of a house. Halliwell.

An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.

An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot. "The tufted crowtoe." Milton.

The title of the eldest son of the czar of Russia.

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.

The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.

of Draw. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.

The act of drowning. [R.]

One who, or that which, drowns.