crescentic (kresentik)

[ In the shade of a very thick tree-top the sun-flecks are circular like the sun; but during an eclipse they are cres centic , or even annular. Le Conte , Light, p. 27. Douglas Bay, with its romantic headlands, crescentic shores, etc. Harper's Mag . , LXXV. 520. Campbell , Song of the Greeks. crescentic ally (kre-sen'ti-kal-i), adv . In a The crescent glittering on the domes which were once consecrated by the venerated symbol of his faith. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., Int. (b) In her., a bearing in the form of a young or new moon, usually borne horizontally with the horns uppermost. See decrescent and increscent. Heraldic Crescent. crescentic manner or shape; crescent wise. crescent i form (kre-sen'ti-fôrm), a. [L. cres cen (t-)s, crescent, + form a, shape.] Crescentie in form; shaped like a crescent: in zoöl., said specifically of various parts, as joints of the antennæ or palpi of insects. crescentoid (kres'en-toid), a. -oid.] Crescent-like; crescent i form. Neither kind of tubercles crescentoid, but united in pairs. E. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, p. 250. form of a crescent or half-moon: as, crescent-shaped (kres'ent-shāpt), a. Shaped A second son differences his arms with a crescent. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra [ser.), i. 114. (c) In arch., a range of buildings in the Lansdowne Crescent in London. 5. A Turkish military musical instrument with bells or jingles.-6. A defect in a horse's foot, when the coffin-bone falls down. E. D. -7. In lace - making, a cordonnet of considerable projection inclosing part of the pattern of point lace, giving it relief, and separating it from the ground or from other parts of the pattern. Thus, if a leaf is made of cloth-stitch, it may be surrounded by a crescent one eighth of an inch thick and with half as much projection, and this again by a ring of ornamental loops or couronnes. 8. A small roll of bread of various kinds, made in the form of a crescent. At noon I bought two crisp crescents... at a shop The Century, XXXII. 939. counter. Crescent City, the by-name of the city of New Orleans, from the crescent-shaped bend of the Mi i ippi river its front. Crescent reversed, in her, a crescent with the horns turned downward. Crescents of Gianuzzi, in an at., the peculiar crescent i form bodies found lying in the alveoli of salivary glands, between the cells and the membrana propria. Also called demilunes of Heidenhain. Order of the Crescent, a Turkish order instituted in 1799, and awarded only for distinguished bravery in the naval or military service. It was abolished in 1851. An order of the crescent was Series founded by Charles of Anjojoin count of Provence and titular king of Naples and Sicily, founded another short-lived order of the crescent in the fifteenth century.