Definition of crescent

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Crescent (n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state..

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Increscent :: Increscent (a.) Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies..
Moony :: Moony (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
Excrescence :: Excrescence (n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant..
Excrescential :: Excrescential (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence..
Bicornous :: Bicornous (a.) Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.
Moon :: Moon (n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.
Decrescent :: Decrescent (a.) Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon..
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.
Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
Dispose :: Dispose (v. t.) To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent..
Pallah :: Pallah (n.) A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok..
Lunular :: Lunular (a.) Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.
Lunated :: Lunated (a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross..
Decrescent :: Decrescent (n.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.
Lunulated :: Lunulated (a.) Resembling a small crescent.
Measles :: Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola..
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge.
Lunulet :: Lunulet (n.) A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects..
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