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

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

Moonwort :: Moonwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Shaped like a crescent.

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

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

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

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