crown, coronen, coroun, coroune, corowne, crouni, crouny, cruni

t. [CROWN, 8.] A. Ordinary Language: I. Literally: 1. To decorate or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and authority. "He did him coroune kyng."-Rob. de Brunne , p. 20. 2. To cover or surround the head as with a crown. "He was clarifiet on cro e, and crownet with thorne." Anturs of Arthur , xviii. II. Figuratively : 1. To surmount; to stand at the summit of. 2. To form a crown or ornament to. "The line of yellow light dies fast away That crowned the eastern copse." Keble: Christian Year. 3. To dignify, to adorn, to make illustrious. "Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor." Ps . viii. 5. 4. To reward, to recompense. "Who redeem eth thy life from destruction; who crown. eth thee with loving kindne and tender mercies." Fs. ciii. 4. 5. To consummate, to be a favorable i ue or result to, to reward. " enterprises, the succe which had generally crowned his "-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xv. 6. To perfect, to complete, to consummate. "I likewise must have power to crown my works with wished end." Chapman: Homer's Iliad iv. 7. To complete, to terminate, to finish. "All these a milk-white honeycomb surround, Which in the midst the country banquet crown'd." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphoses , viii. 8. To fill so full that the contents rise above the brim like a crown. "The youths crowned cups of sacred wine, to all distributed." Chapman: Homer's Iliad, ix. B. Technically : Naut .: To crown a knot is to finish it by pa ing the strands of the rope over and under each other. *crown-a-rie, *crownry, s. [Eng. crowner= coroner; -ry.] The office of a crowner; the same as CROWN ARS HIP (q. v.). the offices of shirefship and crownarie of the said shirefdome of Sutherland."- Act Charles I. (ed. 1814), vol. v., 63 " 1204 *crown-ar-ship, s. [Eng. crowner; -ship .] The office of a crowner. "Carta to Allan Erskine, of the office of the Crownar ship of Fyfe and Fothryf."- Robertson's Index , p. 50, 4.