crest
1. crest \'krest\ n [ME creste, fr. MF, fr. L crista; akin to OE hrisian to
shake], L curvus curved 1a: a showy tuft or process on the head of a bird
or other animal 1b: the plume or identifying emblem worn on a knight's
helmet 1c1: a heraldic representation of the crest 1c2: a heraldic device
depicted above the escutcheon but not upon a helmet 2: something
suggesting a crest esp. in being an upper prominence, edge, or limit : as
2a: PEAK; esp : the top line of a mountain or hill 2b: the ridge or top of
a wave or roof 3a: a high point of an action or process 3b: CLIMAX,
CULMINATION
2. crest vt 1: to furnish with a crest : CROWN 2: to reach the crest of :
to rise to a crest