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Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Shaped like a crescent.

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Phaeton :: Phaeton (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore..

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

Moonseed :: Moonseed (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.

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..

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

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..

Moonwort :: Moonwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond..

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

Lunated :: Lunated (a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross..

Bicornous :: Bicornous (a.) Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

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..

Lunular :: Lunular (a.) Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.

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