See Also: CREST(money)
Crest(medicine)
crest(2)(dictionary)
crest(1)(dictionary)
nape-crest(medicine)
nasal crest(medicine)
neural crest(medicine)
obturator crest(medicine)
crest 2, verb(dictionary)
pubic crest(medicine)

crest(2) (iou)



crest verb. LME.
[from the noun.]
verb trans. Provide with a crest. LME.
verb trans. Mark with long streaks (with allus. to the streaming hair of a crest). rare. L16.
verb trans. Serve as a crest to, top, crown. E17.
Southey Broad battlements Crested the bulwark.
verb intrans. Erect one's crest; raise oneself proudly. obsolete exc. dial. E18.
verb trans. Reach the crest or summit of (a hill, wave, etc.). M19.
J. H. Newman In this inquisitive age, when the Alps are crested, and seas fathomed.
verb intrans. (Of a wave) form or rise into a crest; gen. peak. M19.
S. King The boy's temperature had crested at a giddy one hundred and five degrees.