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

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

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

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

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

Pelta :: Pelta (n.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped..

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

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

Moonwort :: Moonwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond..

Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) A crescent.

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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