crest
noun
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
crestless
-
a word derived from
crest.
Example Sentences
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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
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
All day long brilliant butterflies hover on great curved wings over the jungle edge; all day long the cock-quail whistles from wall and hedge, and the crestless jays, sapphire winged, flit across the dunes.
From The Firing Line by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
Anchotia means crestless, the crested porcupine being called Chotia-dumsi.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
