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Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants..

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..

Excrescent :: Excrescent (a.) Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge.

Equicrescent :: Equicrescent (a.) Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable..

Gourd Tree :: Gourd tree () A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America..

Pelta :: Pelta (n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped..

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..

Excrescential :: Excrescential (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence..

Crescent :: 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..

Crescent :: Crescent (v. t.) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.

Supercretaceous :: Supercrescent (a.) Growing on some other growing thing.

Cusp :: Cusp (n.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

Horning :: Horning (n.) Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent..

Increscent :: Increscent (a.) Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.

Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped..

Bicrescentic :: Bicrescentic (a.) Having the form of a double crescent.

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.

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