'Crested' definitions:
Definition of 'crested'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Bearing an heraldic device
adjective
(of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination; "golden crested"; "crested iris"; "crested oriole"; "tufted duck"; "tufted loosestrife" [syn: crested, topknotted, tufted]
adjective
(of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume [syn: crested, plumed]
Definition of 'Crested'
From: GCIDE
- Crest \Crest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crested; p. pr. & vb. n. Cresting.]
- 1. To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for. [1913 Webster]
- His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm Crested the world. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Mid groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes. [1913 Webster]
- Like as the shining sky in summer's night, . . . Is crested with lines of fiery light. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crested'
From: GCIDE
- Crested \Crest"ed\ (kr[e^]st"[e^]d), a.
- 1. Having a crest. [1913 Webster]
- But laced crested helm. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head. "The crested bird." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bott.) Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'crested'
From: GCIDE
- decorated \decorated\ adj. having decorations. [Narrower terms: {beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly}; bedaubed; {bespectacled, monocled, spectacled}; braided; {brocaded, embossed, raised}; buttony; carbuncled; {champleve, cloisonne, enameled}; crested, plumed having a decorative plume); crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested; embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; {encircled, ringed, wreathed}; {fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked out}; feathery, feathered, plumy; {frilled, frilly, ruffled}; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid; inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; {paneled, wainscoted}; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled; tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out] Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.
- Syn: adorned. [WordNet 1.5]
Words containing 'Crested'
- Crest,
- Cresting,
- Cedar Crest,
- Cnemial crest,
- Crest Hill,
- Crest tile,
- Crest, CA,
- Crested Butte,
- Hazel Crest,
- Iliac crest,
- Interior crest,
- Pine Crest,
- Wildwood Crest,
- crested cariama,
- crested myna,
- crested penguin,
- crested screamer,
- crested swift,
- crested wheatgrass,
- Cedar Crest, NM,
- Cedar Crest, OK,
- Crest Hill, IL,
- Crested Butte, CO,
- East Hazel Crest,
- Hazel Crest, IL,
- Mount Crested Butte,
- Nape-crest,
- Pine Crest, TN,
- Wildwood Crest, NJ,
- crested coral root,
- crested wheat grass,
- great crested grebe,
- East Hazel Crest, IL,
- Hair-crested stork,
- Mount Crested Butte, CO,
- Red-crested poachard,
- black-crested monkey,
- broad-crested cockatoo,
- crested plumed having a decorative plume,
- fairway crested wheat grass,
- fire-crested wren,
- golden-crested kinglet,
- golden-crested wren,
- sulphur-crested cockatoo,
- Green Harbor-Cedar Crest,
- Grier City-Park Crest,
- funnel-crest rosebud orchid,
- Green Harbor-Cedar Crest, MA,
- Grier City-Park Crest, PA,
- crested top-knotted topknotted tufted