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

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

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..

Crescentic :: Crescentic (a.) Crescent-shaped.

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..

Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.

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..

Accrescent :: Accrescent (a.) Growing larger after flowering.

Demilune :: Demilune (n.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

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

Concavo-convex :: Concavo-convex (a.) Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent..

Lunule :: Lunule (n.) Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune..

Moony :: Moony (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.

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

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal..

Thunderbird :: Thunderbird (n.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher..

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..

Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) A crescent.

Croissante :: Croissante (a.) Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.

Crescentwise :: Crescentwise (adv.) In the form of a crescent; like a crescent.

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