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.

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

Decrescendo :: Decrescendo (a. & adv.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign..

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.

Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To blossom forth.

Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce..

Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere..

Effloresced :: Effloresced (imp. & p. p.) of Effloresc.

Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth..

Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc..

Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc..

Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) The powder or crust thus formed.

Efflorescency :: Efflorescency (n.) The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.

Efflorescent :: Efflorescent (v. i.) That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt..

Efflorescent :: Efflorescent (v. i.) Covered with an efflorescence.

Efflorescing :: Efflorescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Effloresc.

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

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..

Excrescency :: Excrescency (n.) Excrescence.

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

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

Florescence :: Florescence (n.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming.

Florescent :: Florescent (a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

Fluorescein :: Fluorescein (n.) A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin..

Fluorescence :: Fluorescence (n.) That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident l

Fluorescent :: Fluorescent (a.) Having the property of fluorescence.

Fluorescin :: Fluorescin (n.) A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by the reduction of fluorescein, and from which the latter may be formed by oxidation..

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