† ˈcrownet Obs.
[A by-form of coronet, cronet, which in its phonetic history followed the change of coroune to crown n.]
= coronet.
1. = coronet 1, 2.
| c 1400 Rom. Rose 3203 Rounde enviroun hir crownet Was fulle of riche stonys frett. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 6 Withe crounettes of gold. 1538 Leland Itin. I. 17 There lyith on the North side of the High Altare Henry Erle of Lancaster, withowt a Crounet. 1606 Shakes. Tr. & Cr. Prol. 6 The Princes..Sixty and nine that wore Their Crownets Regall. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage viii. vi. 638 With a crownet of Feathers. 1842 L. Hunt Palfrey v. 139 King Edward with his crownet on, Sits highest. |
| fig. 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. xii. 27 Whose Bosome was my Crownet, my chiefe end. |
2. Applied to a ‘head’ of flowers (
= coronet 7 a), or the leafy ‘head’ of a tree.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. viii. 15 In the middest of those small Burres there groweth forth as it were a little Crownet. 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xv. (1626) 314 A nest..Vpon the crownet of a trembling Palme. |
3. The lowest part of a horse's pastern, or the tuft of hair on this part;
= coronet 5.
Cf. cronet 4.
| 1616 Bullokar, Crownet, a little crowne, also a part of a horse hoofe. 1635 Markham Faithfull Farrier (1638) 97 With this Salve..annoynt the crownets of the Horses hoofes. 1725 Lond. Gaz. No. 6348/3 A bay Mare, with a Crownet upon her near Leg behind. |
4. = cornet n.1 4.
| 1614 Markham Cheap Husb. i. lxxv. (1668) 69 Raise up the skin with a crownet, and put in a plate of Lead. |