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

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.

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..

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

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..

Cusp :: Cusp (n.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

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..

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..

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

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..

Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) A crescent.

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

Bicrescentic :: Bicrescentic (a.) Having the form of a double crescent.

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..

Crescentic :: Crescentic (a.) Crescent-shaped.

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

Phaeton :: Phaeton (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore..

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..

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

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