(UK law) A person implicated in a criminal case who turn against their accomplices by serving as a witness for the state and who may enter into a witness protection program afterwards.

A game of chance popular with soldiers in the late 19th and early 20th century, in which players bet on combinations of three dice. It is equivalent to chuck-a-luck.

A census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska. / A mountain in the Sierra Nevada, Mono County, California. / A city, the county seat of Lake County, Indiana.

plural of crown dependency

Any of three island territories in the British Islands that are self-governing possessions of the British Crown.

A large raptor that preys chiefly on mammals, found in sub-Saharan Africa, Stephanoaetus coronatus.

plural of jewel in the crown

(Christianity) A reliquary from the early Middle Ages, consisting of a circlet of gold and jewels fitted around a central silver band, which tradition held to be made of iron beaten out of a nail of the True Cross.

Nickname of Cortland, New York, United States.

(idiomatic) The most valuable or important thing or person among others of its kind.