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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Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.
Falcated :: Falcated (a.) Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed..
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..
Excrescential :: Excrescential (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence..
Accrescent :: Accrescent (a.) Growing; increasing.
Excrescent :: Excrescent (a.) Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
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..
Tharos :: Tharos (n.) A small American butterfly (Phycoides tharos) having the upper surface of the wings variegated with orange and black, the outer margins black with small white crescents; -- called also pearl crescent..
Bicornous :: Bicornous (a.) Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.
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..
Moony :: Moony (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
Equicrescent :: Equicrescent (a.) Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable..
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana..
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge.
Croissante :: Croissante (a.) Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.
Increscent :: Increscent (a.) Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.
Moon :: Moon (n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
Lunule :: Lunule (n.) A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. It sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart-shaped. See Illust. of Bivalve..
Lunule :: Lunule (n.) Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune..
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