Word Meanings - CONQUEROR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who conquers. The Conqueror . William the Norman who invaded England, defeated Harold in the battle of Hastings, and was crowned king, in 1066.
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- CROWN SIDE
See OFFICE - CROWNED
1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing - CROWNER
A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym: - INVADE
1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter - CROWNLAND
In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria. - CONQUEROR
One who conquers. The Conqueror . William the Norman who invaded England, defeated Harold in the battle of Hastings, and was crowned king, in 1066. - CROWN OFFICE
The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill. - CROWN-SAW
A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight. - INVADER
One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder. - CROWNLESS
Without a crown. - CROWN COLONY
A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people. - CROWNPIECE
A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle. A coin See Crown, 19. - CROWN-POST
See KING-POST - CROWNLET
A coronet. Sir W. Scott. - DEFEATURED
Changed in features; deformed. Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey. - BATTLEDOOR
A child's hornbook. Halliwell. (more info) origin; cf. Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr. L. battalia; or cf. Pr. batedor batlet, fr. batre to beat, fr. L. 1. - CROWN-IMPERIAL
A spring-blooming plant of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves. - BATTLED
Embattled. Tennyson. - BATTLE
Fertile. See Battel, a. - NORMAN
A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror. - EMBATTLEMENT
1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements. - UNCROWN
To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone. He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. Shak. - DISCROWN
To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley. - TRIPLE-CROWNED
Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope. - ENBATTLED
Embattled. - BATTELER; BATTLER
A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.