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Crown In heraldry nine crowns are recognised: The oriental, the triumphal or imperial, the diadem, the
obsidional crown, the civic, the crown vallery, the mural crown, the naval, and the crown celestial. Crown Glass is window glass blown into a crown or hollow globe. It is flattened before it is fit for use. Crown Office (The). A department belonging to the Court of Queen's Bench. There are three Crown officers appointed by the Lord Chief Justice - viz. (1) Queen's Coroner and Attorney; (2) the Master; and (3) the Assistant Master. The offices are held during good behaviour. Crown of the East - i.e. Antioch, capital of Syria, which consisted of four walled cities, encompassed by a common rampart, that enrounded them like a coronet. It was also surnamed the beautiful. Crowns (worn by heathen deities): Crowner Coroner - i.e. an officer of the Crown. The crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial. - Shakespeare: Hamlet, v. 1.Crow's-Nest (The), in a Greenlander's galley, is a small room constructed of staves, something like an empty cask. It is fitted up with seats and other conveniences, and here the person on watch continues for two hours looking out for whales. The whale generally announces his approach by a blowing, which may in favourable circumstances be heard several miles off. Crowquill (Alfred). Alfred Henry Forrester (1805-1872). Croysado The Great Croysado. General Lord Fairfax. (Hudibras.) Crozier or Crosier. An archbishop's staff terminates in a floriated cross, while a bishop's crook has a curved, brackenlike head. A bishop turns his crook outwards, to denote his wider authority; an abbot (whose crook is the same as a bishop's) carries it turned inwards, to show that his jurisdiction is limited to his own inmates. When walking with a bishop an abbot covers his crook with a veil hanging from the knob, to show that his authority is veiled in the presence of his superior. |
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