Obs. [A by-form of CORONET, CRONET, which in its phonetic history followed the change of coroune to CROWN.] = 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. Shaks., 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. Shaks., 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 Lay Mare, with a Crownet upon her near Leg behind.
4. = CORNET sb.1 4.
1614. Markham, Cheap Husb., I. lxxv. (1668), 69. Raise up the skin with a crownet, and put in a plate of Lead.
