Definition of crescent

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Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.

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Demilune :: Demilune (n.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.
Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
Equicrescent :: Equicrescent (a.) Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable..
Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Shaped like a crescent.
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..
Lunule :: Lunule (n.) Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune..
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..
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..
Pelta :: Pelta (n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped..
Concavo-convex :: Concavo-convex (a.) Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent..
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..
Cusp :: Cusp (n.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.
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..
Supercretaceous :: Supercrescent (a.) Growing on some other growing thing.
Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) A crescent.
Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped..
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal..
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..
Bicornous :: Bicornous (a.) Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.
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