Definition of crescent

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Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.

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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..
Horn :: Horn (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
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..
Bicrescentic :: Bicrescentic (a.) Having the form of a double crescent.
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..
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..
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..
Lunular :: Lunular (a.) Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.
Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
Moony :: Moony (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
Pallah :: Pallah (n.) A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok..
Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Shaped like a crescent.
Lunated :: Lunated (a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross..
Crescentic :: Crescentic (a.) Crescent-shaped.
Tharos :: Tharos (n.) A small American butterfly (Phycoides tharos) having the upper surface of the wings variegated with orange and black, the outer margins black with small white crescents; -- called also pearl crescent..
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople..
Lunule :: Lunule (n.) A small or narrow crescent.
Cusp :: Cusp (n.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.
Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped..
Crescent :: Crescent (v. t.) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent..
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