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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..

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

Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped..

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

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

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

Lunated :: Lunated (a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross..

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..

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

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

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

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

Lunulated :: Lunulated (a.) Resembling a small crescent.

Crescentwise :: Crescentwise (adv.) In the form of a crescent; like a crescent.

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

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

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

Bicornous :: Bicornous (a.) Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

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..

Ringdove :: Ringdove (n.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat..

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