increst
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
increst (third-person singular simple present incrests, present participle incresting, simple past and past participle incrested)
- (transitive) To adorn with a crest.
- 1616, William Drummond of Hawthornden, “Song XIII”, in Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains:
- Two foaming billows flow'd upon her breast,
Which did their tops with coral red increst
References[edit]
“increst”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.