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Crescentic

Crescent shaped...


Crescente malitia crescere debet et paena

Crescente malitia crescere debet et paena [Lat.], vice increasing, Punishment ought also to increase....


Crescentwise

In the form of a crescent like a crescent...


Lunate

Crescent shaped resembling the crescent moon as a lunate leaf a lunate beak a lunated cross...


Lunule

Anything crescent shaped a crescent shaped part or mark a lunula a lune...


Bailys beads

A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun Just before and after a total eclipse the slender unobscured crescent of the suns disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads The phenomenon first fully described by Francis Baily 1774 1844 is thought to be an effect of irradiation and of inequalities of the moons edge...


Bicrescentic

Having the form of a double crescent...


Concavo convex

Concave on one side and convex on the other as an eggshell or a crescent...


Crescent

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...


Croissanteacute

Terminated with crescents said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated...


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