CREST

I. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Anglo-French, from Latin crista; probably akin to Latin crinis hair Date: 14th century 1. a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird, the plume or identifying emblem worn on a knight's helmet, c. a heraldic representation of the ~, a heraldic device depicted above the escutcheon but not upon a helmet, coat of arms 2a, a ridge or prominence on a part of an animal body, something suggesting a ~ especially in being an upper prominence, edge, or limit: as, peak , the ridge of a roof, the top of a wave, 3. a high point of an action or process and especially of one that is rhythmic, climax , culmination , ~al adjective ~less adjective II. verb Date: 15th century transitive verb to furnish with a ~, to reach the ~ of , intransitive verb to rise to a ~