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

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

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..

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

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

Gourd Tree :: Gourd tree () A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America..

Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) A crescent.

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

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

Measles :: Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola..

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..

Increscent :: Increscent (a.) Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side..

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..

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

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants..

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

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

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

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

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

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