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Definition of crescent

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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..

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

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..

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

Moon :: Moon (n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

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

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

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

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..

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

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople..

Accrescent :: Accrescent (a.) Growing; increasing.

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

Horn :: Horn (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.

Crescent :: Crescent (v. t.) To adorn with crescents.

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

Decrescent :: Decrescent (n.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.

Porbeagle :: Porbeagle (n.) A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark..

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

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

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