Word: crown Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, korona, koruna, krona, króna, and krone. Displaced Old English corenbēag (“crown”) and Middle English kinehelm, kynehelm, from Old English cynehelm (“crown”, literally “kinhelm” or “king's helm”). The paper sizes (etymology 1, noun sense 18) are so called because the papers were originally watermarked with a crown. Pronunciation: /kɹaʊ̯n/, /kɹæʊ̯n/, /kɹaːn/ 1. To place a crown on the head of. Example: The king of the Huns was crowned with steel, and rode a stallion red,/Saying: “Proud must my father’s spirit feel of me who crowned my head […]” 2. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc. Example: Her, vvho faireſt does appear, / Crovvn her Queen of all the year. 3. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. Example: Thou […] hast crowned him with glory and honour. 4. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. Example: the grove that crowns yon tufted hill Example: To crown the whole, came a proposition. 5. To declare (someone) a winner. Example: New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point. 6. To have its head's surface appear in the vaginal opening during the birthing process. Example: The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives. Example: You will see the baby's head crowning during contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby. 7. To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley. Labels: transitive 8. To hit on the head. Example: ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended. She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’. 9. To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game. 10. In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king. Example: “Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row. 11. To spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire. 12. To widen the opening of the barrel. 13. To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach. 14. To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other. 15. To have its topmost part emerge partially from the body, as a result of heightened internal pressure in the bowels. Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic, intransitive, slang, vulgar 16. To struggle to hold back an imminent, crowning bowel movement. Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic, intransitive, slang, vulgar Example: Where's the bathroom, I'm crowning here! 17. To shoot (someone) in the head. Labels: slang, transitive