Crested

ppl. a. Also 6 creasted, 6–8 cristed. [f. CREST sb. and v. + -ED. Cf. OF. cresté, L. cristātus.]

  1.  Furnished, topped or adorned with a crest; wearing or having a crest.

c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 4541. With an hard crested serpentis fel.

1481.  Caxton, Myrr., II. xvi. 102. The huppe or lapwynche is a byrde crested.

c. 1620.  Z. Boyd, Zion’s Flowers (1855), 135. With cristed plumes they fiercely other smite.

1667.  Milton, P. L., VII. 443. The crested Cock.

1810.  Scott, Lady of L., I. Introd. ii. Fair dames and crested chiefs.

1851.  C. L. Smith, trans. Tasso, II. lxxxiv. This makes the billow smooth its crested head.

  b.  spec. Applied to many species of animals and plants distinguished by a crest; = L. cristatus, -a.

1796.  Stedman, Surinam, II. xxvii. 300. The crested eagle.

1802.  Bingley, Anim. Biog. (1813), II. 347. The Crested Penguins are inhabitants of several of the South Sea islands.

1861.  Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., VI. 98. Crested Dog’s-tail.

1882.  Garden, 16 Sept., 258/3. The Crested Male Fern.

  c.  fig. (Cf. CREST sb.¹ 1 b.)

1618.  Bolton, Florus, IV. ix. 307. The miserable overthrow of Crassus made the Parthians higher crested.

1757.  Gray, Bard, I. i. The crested pride Of the first Edward.

  2.  Her. Having a crest of a different tincture from that of the body.

1572.  Bossewell, Armorie, II. 60 b. A Basiliske displayed, Emeraude, cristed, Saphire.

1766–87.  Porny, Her., Gloss.

  † 3.  Having raised lines or striæ, ribbed. Obs.

1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, I. xxx. 42. The stalkes [of Rhubarb] are straked and crested.

1834.  Planché, Brit. Costume, 268. Mandillians … some plaited and crested [striped] behind.

  4.  Having a raised ridge. (See CREST sb. 9.)

1857.  Henfrey, Bot., Index, Crested petals.

1856.  A. R. Wallace, in Huxley, Man’s Place Nat., I. (1863), 40–1. Single-crested and double-crested skulls.