What is the meaning of CREST. Phrases containing CREST
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A block of wood inserted into the barrel of a gun on a 19th-century warship to keep out the sea spray. Also used for covers on the ends of the barrels of more modern ships' guns, the larger of which are often adorned with the ship's crest or other decoration. The term is often bastardized as "tampon".
Wamble−cropped is slang for sick in the stomach and also, crestfallen and dejected.
Spray blown from the crests of waves.
The highest point of a wave.
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That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.
v. t.
To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
n.
The crested titmouse.
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Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected.
n.
The European crested titmouse.
n.
The crest on a coat of arms.
v. i.
To form a crest.
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Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.
v. t.
To support as a crest; to bear.
n.
A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Having a crest.
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Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head.
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An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.
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An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.
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Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth.
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The back, or top of the back; a crest.
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Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.
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n.
The crest on a coat of arms.
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