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To CROWD, v. a. To fill with confnfed multitudes. 
—A mind which is ever crowding its memory with tilings 
which it learns, may cramp the invention itfelf. Watts. 
—To prefs clofe together.—As the mind itfelf is thought 
to take up no fpace, fo its aflions fecm to require no 
time ; but many of them feem to be crowded into an in- 
ftant. Locke. 
Then let us fill 
This little interval, this paufe of life. 
With all the virtues we can crowd into it. Addifon. 
To incumber by multitudes : 
How fhort is life ! Why will vain courtiers toil, 
And crowd a vainer monarch for a fmile ? Granville. 
To crowd fail-, [a fea phrafe. ] To fpread wide the. fails 
upon the yards. 
7 b CROWD, v. 7i. To (warm; to be numerous and 
confufed : 
They follow their undaunted king ; 
Crowd through their gates; and, in the fields of light. 
The (hocking fquadrons meet in mortal fight. Dry den. 
To thruft among a multitude : 
A mighty man, had not fom>e cunning fin 
Amidft fo many virtues crowded in. Cowley. 
CROW'DER, f. A fiddler.—Chevy-chafe fung by a 
blind crowder. Sidney. 
CROW'KEEPER, f. A fcarecrow.—That fellow 
handles his bow like a crowkceper. Shakefpeare. 
CROW'LAND, or Croyland, a final! market-town 
in the fens of Lincolnfhire. It is a place of great anti¬ 
quity, and part of its abbey is (till remaining, which 
was founded by-Ethelbald, king of the Mercians, about 
tire year 716, dedicated to St. Guthlake and St. Bartho¬ 
lomew. The bridge is the greateff curiofity in Britain, 
if not in Europe ; it is of a triangular form, rifing from 
three-fegments of a circle, and meeting at a point at 
top ; it is fo deep in its afeent and defeent, that neither 
carriages nor horfes can pafs over it. Each bafe of this 
bridge, it is faid, (lands in a different county, viz. Lin- 
colnfhire, Cambridgcftiire, andNorthamptonfhire ; horfes 
and carriages go under the bridge ; foot paffengers over. 
On the fouth-weft wing, which faces the London road, 
is placed, in a fitting poflure, a (lately image of king 
Ethelbald ; it has a crown fleury on the head, and a 
glove in the right hand ; it was erefted about the year 
860. It has a market every Saturday ; and one annual 
fair on St. Bartholomew’s day. Croyland is diftant from 
Peterborough twelve miles, from Bofton thirty-fix, and 
ninety-three from London. The town derives its-chief 
trade from its wild ducks : of which fofnetimes they 
drive three thoufand into a net at once, by dogs; and 
they arc brought hither by decoy-ducks, trained for the 
purpofe. The art of taking the fowls by this means is 
a mod Angular inftance of the ingenuity of man, in 
being able to make any of the animal creation cunning 
enough to afiifi him in the deftrudlion of its own fpe- 
cies. See the article Decoy, in this volume. 
CROWLE, a fmall town in the ifle of Axhold, in 
Lincolnfhire, diftant from Thorne fix miles, from Ep- 
worth ten, from Burton fix, and one hundred and fixty- 
mine north from London. Its market is on Saturdays; 
the fairs are, the laft Monday in May, and November 22. 
Here is alfo a good charity-fchool. 
CROWN, f. \_couronne, Fr. kroone, Dut. corona, Lat. ] 
The ornament of the head which denotes imperial and 
regal dignity : 
If thou be a king, where is thy crown? -- 
-—My crown is in my heart, not on my head : 
My crown is call’d content; 
A crown it is that feldom kings enjoy. Henry VI, 
Look down, you gods, 
And on this couple drop a bleifed crown. Shakefpeare. 
A garland,—Receive a crown for thy well ordering of 
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the feaft. Ecclus. —Reward; honorary diftinflion.—They 
do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorrupt¬ 
ible. 1 Cor. ix. 25. 
Let merit crowns, and juftice laurels give, 
But let me happy by your pity live. Dry den. 
Regal power; royalty..—The fucceflion of a crown in 
feveral countries places it on different heads. Locke. —= 
The top of the head, in a contemptuous fenfe : 
Behold! if fortune or a miftrefs frowns, 
Some plunge in bufinefs, others.(have their crowns. Pope . 
The top of any thing, as of a mountain : 
Huge trunks of trees, fell’d from the fteepy crown 
Of the bare mountains, roll with ruin down. Dryden . 
Part of the hat that covers the head.—I once opened a 
remarkable atheroma: it was about as big as the crown 
of a man’s hat, and lay underneath the pedtoral mufele. 
Sharp. —A piece of money, anciently damped with a 
crown ; five (hillings.—An ounce of filver, whether in 
pence, groats, or a-oafa-pieces, (livers, or ducatoons, or 
in bullion, is, and eternally will be, of equal vaiue to 
any oilier ounce of filver. Locke. —Completion ; accom- 
plifhment. Honour; ornament; decoration; excellence; 
dignity.—Much experience is the crown of old men. 
Ecclus, xxv. 6.—Therefore my brethren, dearly beloved, 
and longed for, my joy and crown, (land fait in the Lord. 
Philip, iv. 1. 
The Romans ufed various kinds of crowns, which they 
diftributed as rewards of military achievements; as, 1. 
The oval crown, made of myrtle, and bellowed upon ge¬ 
nerals, who were entitled to the honours of the leller 
triumph, called ovation. 2. The naval or roftral crown, 
compofed of a circle of gold, with ornaments reprefent- 
ing beaks of (hips, and given to the captain who firft 
grappled, or the foldier who (irft boarded, an enemy’s 
(hip. 3. The crown called in Latin vallaris, or caflrcnfs, 
a circle of gold raifed with jewels or palifades; the re¬ 
ward of him who firft forced the enemy’s entrenchments. 
4. The mural crown, a circle of gold indented and em¬ 
battled ; given to him who firft mounted the wall of a 
belieged place, and there lodged a ftandard. 5. The 
civic crown, made of the branch of a green oak, and 
given him who had faved the life of a citizen. 6. The 
triumphal crown, confiding at firft of wreaths of laurel, 
but afterwards made of gold ; proper to fucli generals 
as had the honour of a triumph. 7. The cfown called 
cbfdionalis, or graminea, made of grafs growing on the 
place ; the reward of a general who had delivered a 
Roman army from a fiege. 8. The radial crown, given 
to princes at their tranflation among the gods. We meet 
alfo with the corona aurea, often bellowed on foldiers, 
without any other additional term : athletic crowns, 
and crowns of laurel, deftined to crown viblors at the 
public games, poets, orators, &c. See Heraldry. 
CROWN, f. in aftronomy, a name given to two con- 
ftellations, the fouthern and the northern. 
CROWN, f. in geometry, a plane ring included be¬ 
tween two parallel or concentric peripheries, of unequal 
circles. 
To CROWN, v. a. To invert with the crown or regal 
ornament: 
Had you not come upon your cue, my lord, 
William lord Hafiings had pronounc’d your part; 
I mean your voice for crowning of the king. Shakefpeare » 
To cover, as with a crown : 
Umbro, the pried, the proud Marrabians led, 
And peaceful olives crown'd his hoary head. Dryden. 
To dignify ; to adorn ; to make illuftrious.—Thou haft 
made him a little lower than the angels, and haft crowned 
him with glory and honour. PJalm viii. 5.—lo reward; 
to recompenfe: 
Urge your fuccefs ; deferve a lading name ; 
She’ll erewn a grateful and a conftant flame, Rofcommon. 
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