Word Meanings - CRESTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.

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• RIDGELING
  A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• FINISH
  1. To come to an end; to terminate. His days may finish ere that hapless time. Shak. 2. To end; to die. Shak.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• RIDGELET
  A little ridge.
• RIDGEBONE
  The backbone. Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.
• RIDGEBAND
  The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. Halliwell.
• RIDGEL
  See RIDGELLING
• RIDGEROPE
  See LIFE
• FINISHING
  Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use. Finishing coat. the final coat of plastering applied to walls and ceilings, usually white and rubbed smooth. The final coat of paint, usually differently mixed applied from the
• RIDGEPOLE
  The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.
• RIDGE
  1. To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges. Bristles ranged like those that ridge the back Of chafed wild boars. Milton. 2. To form into ridges with the plow, as land. 3. To wrinkle. "With a forehead
• ORNAMENTALLY
  By way of ornament.
• RIDGEPIECE; RIDGEPLATE
  See RIDGEPOLE
• FINISHED
  Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education. Finished work , work that is made smooth or polished, though not necessarily completed.
• CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
  A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
• AUCTION BRIDGE
  A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score
• PORRIDGE
  A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc. (more info) by OE. porree a kind of pottage,
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• SEA PARTRIDGE
  The gilthead , a fish of the British coasts.
• PARTRIDGE
  F. perdrix, L. perdix, -icis, fr. Gr. 1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidæ, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. Full many
• PIPERIDGE
  See PEPPERIDGE
• HIGH-FINISHED
  Finished with great care; polished.
• BRIDGELESS
  Having no bridge; not bridged.
• BRIDGE
  The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument. (more info) akin to Fries. bregge, D. brug, OHG. bruccu, G. brücke, Icel. bryggja
• WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE
  See BRIDGE
• UNABRIDGED
  Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole.