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helmet-crest
1. (Also helmet crest.) The crest of a helmet.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxiii. viii, Upon his first head in his helmet crest. 1676Hobbes Iliad (1677) 244 Lycon him hit upon the helmet-crest. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. vi, The honoured pledge you gave..shall wave upon my helmet-crest.
2. A crested humming-bird of the genus Oxypogon.
1863Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. II. 241 The Helmet-crests are very curious birds, and are at once known by the singular pointed plume which crowns the top of the head. |