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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

Increscent :: Increscent (a.) Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.

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..

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

Moonseed :: Moonseed (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.

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.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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