increst

English

Etymology

in- + crest

Verb

increst (third-person singular simple present incrests, present participle incresting, simple past and past participle incrested)

  1. (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

increst”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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