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What does the word crown mean?

In anatomy, this name is given to parts of circular form, which surmount other portions of the same body. Thus, the Crown of a Tooth, Corona Dentis, ( F.) Couronne du Dent, is the portion of the tooth which projects above the gum.
[ Latin] That part of the tooth projecting above the gum.
[ Latin] The circular or conical, cutting part of a trephine.

Usage examples for crown

But if so, there again came nothing of a crown with it; though it was not without its good results for Friedrich's children by and by. – History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718 by Thomas Carlyle
The back or crown brass, and not the key brass, should be fitted first. – Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Napoleon left Paris on the 1st of April to take possession of the Iron Crown at Milan. – The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

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