Definition of crescent

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Crescent (n.) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana..

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Moony :: Moony (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
Ringdove :: Ringdove (n.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat..
Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.
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 (n.) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana..
Bicrescentic :: Bicrescentic (a.) Having the form of a double crescent.
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..
Cusp :: Cusp (n.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.
Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
Excrescential :: Excrescential (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence..
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..
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..
Horning :: Horning (n.) Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent..
Crescentic :: Crescentic (a.) Crescent-shaped.
Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Shaped like a crescent.
Supercretaceous :: Supercrescent (a.) Growing on some other growing thing.
Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) A crescent.
Lunule :: Lunule (n.) A small or narrow 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..
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople..
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