[UN-2 8.] Deprived of a crest.
1611. Cotgr., Ecreté, topped, vncrested; whose top or crest is taken off.
1834. De Quincey, Autob. Sk., Wks. 1853, I. 181, note. Supposing the city to be uncrested, as it were; its upper tiers to be what the sailors call unshipped.
