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

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

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..

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

Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) A crescent.

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

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

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..

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..

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..

Decrescent :: Decrescent (n.) A crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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