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To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. [Obs.] Of cold the property is to condense and constipate. Bacon.

Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation. [Obs.] Fullness of matter, or a pretty close constipation . . . of its particles. Boyle.

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.

Shaped like a crow's beak.

A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge. Corbie crow, the carrion crow. [Scot.]

ps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

To press forward in a winding way; as, to corksrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] Dickens.

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.

Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.

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