crown

the martyr’s crown

A parliament may be diſſolved by the demiſe of the crown.

Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.

…if he awake,

From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skin with pinches,

Make vs ſtrange ſtuffe.

Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown

Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.

Watt was beginning to tire of running his eyes up and down this highway, when a figure, human apparently, advancing along its crown, arrested, and revived, his attention.

The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.

… happie in our mutual help

And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliſs

Ordain'd by thee, …

Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

When these TV chefs show you that they can cook a turkey crown in less than two hours; they aren't magicians or have secret turkey suppliers. The twenty minute per pound rule is based on our grandparents' ovens.

"His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a church crown [Sunday best hat]."