Word Meanings - BROWBOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. Shak.

Related words: (words related to BROWBOUND)

• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• 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
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• 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.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• CROWNLESS
  Without a crown.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• 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.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• DIADEM
  An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center. Diadem lemur. See Indri. -- Diadem spider , the garden spider. (more info) 1. Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet,
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• CROWNPIECE
  A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle. A coin See Crown, 19.
• CROWN-POST
  See KING-POST
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• 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.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• ENDIADEMED
  Diademed.
• TRIPLE-CROWNED
  Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.