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Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.

A knife; a dagger.

or of the imagination; nature. We know that the whole creation groaneth. Rom. viii. 22. A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield.

A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft. Gray.

An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consist of a central medallion with seven arms radiating f…

Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate;especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.

An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes. Owen.

To bind up; to bandage.

A binding up; a bandaging. Wiseman.

The mark ||; -- called also double dagger.

One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. Owen.

Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.

A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produce…

A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander. Dirk knife, a clasp knife having a large, dirklike blade.

To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.

Liberation from bondage; emancipation; disinthrallment. [Written also disenthralment.]

A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Scot.] This was Abel Sampson, commonly called, from occupation as a pedagogue, Dominie Sampson. Sir W. Scott.

The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.