Crown

Before so many of Europe's crowns came tumbling off the heads of their royal owners, Continental Europe could show a rich variety in the matter of royal trains.

the martyr’s crown

A parliament may be diſſolved by the demiſe of the crown.

Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.

Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown; and only forty thousand pounds remained in the Exchequer.

[...]if he awake, / From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skin with pinches, / Make vs ſtrange ſtuffe.

In more than twenty things, which I ſet down; / This done, I twenty more had in my Crown, / And they again began to multiply, / Like ſparks that from the coals of fire do fly.

Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.

We walk’d together on the crown/Of a high mountain which look’d down/Afar from its proud natural towers/Of rock and forest, on the hills—/The dwindled hills! begirt with bowers/And shouting with a thousand rills.

So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.

Watt was beginning to tire of running his eyes up and down this highway, when a figure, human apparently, advancing along its crown, arrested, and revived, his attention.

The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.

Holonym: canopy

[…] happie in our mutual help/ And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliſs/ Ordain'd by thee, […]

Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

There is no difficulty getting married in Jamaica, is there? No, it only costs half a crown.

Maggie Murphy had some knickers that she bought in Bagenalstown, an interlock of knickers that she got for a half a crown.

The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.

When these TV chefs show you that they can cook a turkey crown in less than two hours; they aren't magicians or have secret turkey suppliers. The twenty minute per pound rule is based on our grandparents' ovens.

"His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a church crown [Sunday best hat]."

crown prince

a crown fire

The king of the Huns was crowned with steel, and rode a stallion red,/Saying: “Proud must my father’s spirit feel of me who crowned my head […]”

Her, vvho faireſt does appear, / Crovvn her Queen of all the year.

Thou […] hast crowned him with glory and honour.

the grove that crowns yon tufted hill

To crown the whole, came a proposition.

New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.

The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.

You will see the baby's head crowning during contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby.

He's crowning . . . His head's coming through

‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended. She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.

“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.

Where's the bathroom, I'm crowning here!

The cock had crown.