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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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Accrescent :: Accrescent (a.) Growing larger after flowering.

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

Concavo-convex :: Concavo-convex (a.) Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent..

Lunulet :: Lunulet (n.) A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects..

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

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

Lune :: Lune (n.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles..

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..

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

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..

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

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

Horning :: Horning (n.) Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent..

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