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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crest \Crest\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Crested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cresting}.]
1. To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm Crested the world. --Shak.
Mid groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow. --Wordsworth.
2. To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.
Like as the shining sky in summer's night, . . . Is crested with lines of fiery light. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crested \Crest"ed\ (kr[e^]st"[e^]d), adjective
1. Having a crest.
But laced crested helm. --Dryden.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head. ''The crested bird.'' --Dryden.
3. (Bott.) Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft. --Gray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
decorated \decorated\ adjective 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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crested
adjective
1: bearing an heraldic device
2: (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: {topknotted}, {tufted}]
3: (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume [syn: {plumed}]
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