crescent
6 definitions found
crescent - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Crescent \Cres"cent\ (kr[e^]s"sent), n. [OE. cressent,
cressaunt, crescent (in sense 1), OF. creissant increasing,
F. croissant, p. pr. of cro[^i]tre, OF. creistre, fr. L.
crescere to increase, v. incho.; akin to creare to create.
See Create, and cf. Accrue, Increase, Crescendo.]
1. 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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2. Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.
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3. A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an
emblem or badge; as:
(a) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana.
(b) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.
Hence:
(c) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the
taking of Constantinople.
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The cross of our faith is replanted,
The pale, dying crescent is daunted. --Campbell.
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4. Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first
instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in
1268; the second by Ren['e] 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. --Brande & C.
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5. (Her.) 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.
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Crescent \Cres"cent\ (kr[e^]s"sent), a.
1. Shaped like a crescent.
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Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns.
--Milton.
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2. Increasing; growing.
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O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not
set. --Tennyson.
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Crescent \Cres"cent\, v. t.
1. To form into a crescent, or something resembling a
crescent. [R.] --Anna Seward.
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2. To adorn with crescents.
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crescent - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
crescent
adj 1: resembling the new moon in shape [syn: crescent(a),
crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate]
n 1: any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its
first or last quarters
crescent - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Crescent, GA
Zip code(s): 31304
Crescent, IA (city, FIPS 17175)
Location: 41.36630 N, 95.85880 W
Population (1990): 113 (54 housing units)
Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 51526
Crescent, MO
Zip code(s): 63025
Crescent, OK (city, FIPS 18250)
Location: 35.94986 N, 97.58961 W
Population (1990): 1236 (663 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 73028
Crescent, OR
Zip code(s): 97733
crescent - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
276 Moby Thesaurus words for "crescent":
Autobahn, Cynthian, S-shaped, US highway, achievement, alerion,
alley, alleyway, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings,
armory, arms, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery,
artificial satellite, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, azure,
bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, belt highway, bend,
bend sinister, biconcave, bicorn, billet, blazon, blazonry,
blind alley, blooming, blossoming, bordure, boulevard, broad arrow,
budding, burgeoning, bypass, byway, cadency mark, camino real,
canton, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaplet, charge, chaussee,
chevron, chief, circle, circumferential, circus, close,
coat of arms, cockatrice, corduroy road, corniform, coronet,
county road, court, crescendoing, crescent moon, crescent-shaped,
crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, crest, cross,
cross moline, crown, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, decrescent,
decrescent moon, demilune, developed, device, difference,
differencing, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, eagle, ermine,
ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, expanding, expressway,
falcate, falciform, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch,
fleur-de-lis, florescent, flourishing, flowering, freeway, fret,
full moon, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, fur, fusil,
garland, gibbous moon, gravel road, griffin, growing, grown,
grown-up, gules, gyron, half circle, half-moon, harvest moon,
hatchment, helmet, hemicycle, heraldic device, highroad, highway,
highways and byways, honor point, horn-shaped, horned, horseshoe,
hypertrophied, impalement, impaling, increasing, incremental,
increscent, increscent moon, inescutcheon, intensifying,
interstate highway, label, lane, lengthening, lion, local road,
lozenge, lunar, lunate, lunette, luniform, lunula, lunular, lunule,
main drag, main road, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle,
mature, menisciform, meniscoid, meniscus, metal, mews, moon,
moon-shaped, moonlike, motorway, motto, mullet, multiplying,
new moon, nombril point, octofoil, on the increase, or,
orb of night, ordinary, orle, overdeveloped, overgrown, pale, paly,
parkway, pave, paved road, pean, pheon, pike, place, plank road,
primary highway, private road, proliferating, purpure, quadrant,
quarter, quartering, queen of heaven, queen of night, right-of-way,
ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, rose, route nationale, row,
royal road, sable, saltire, satellite, scutcheon, scythe,
secondary road, sector, semicircle, semicircular, semilunar,
sextant, shield, sickle, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sigmoid,
silvery moon, snowballing, speedway, spread eagle, spreading,
sprouting, state highway, street, subordinary, superhighway,
swelling, tenne, terrace, the wandering Moon, thoroughfare,
thriving, through street, thruway, tightening, tincture, toll road,
torse, township road, tressure, turnpike, two-horned, unicorn,
vair, vert, waning crescent moon, waning moon, waxing,
waxing crescent moon, waxing moon, wet moon, wreath, wynd, yale
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