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

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

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

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

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

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople..

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..

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..

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

Crescent :: Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Excrescential :: Excrescential (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence..

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

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

Supercrescent :: Supercrescence (n.) That which grows upon another growing thing; a parasite.