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

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

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

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 adorn with crescents.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Decrescent :: Decrescent (a.) Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon..

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

Lunule :: Lunule (n.) A small or narrow crescent.

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

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

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..

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