crest
noun
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
crestless
-
a word derived from
crest.
Example Sentences
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Beneath, the clear green sea rolled in crestless waves towards the shore—they were moving "without the animation of the wind," which had deserted them two days ago, and a hundred miles out at sea.
From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies
Upon his head he placed his bull's-hide helmet, coneless, crestless, which is called cataityx, 348 and protects the heads of blooming youths.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
Many birds live there; swift troops of the beautiful plumed California quails; crimson-throated Anna humming-birds, crestless California jays, fidgeting finches and juncos, spunky sparrows and wrens, chattering chickadees and titmice, fierce little fly-catchers and kinglets.
From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
Like the Colosseum, it is the crestless trunk of its former self.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
To Diomede, who at the fleet had left300 His own, the dauntless Thrasymedes gave His shield and sword two-edged, and on his head Placed, crestless, unadorn'd, his bull-skin casque.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
