crescentn.

/ˈkrɛsənt/

Forms: α. Middle English–1600s cressant, Middle English cressaunt, ( screscent), Middle English–1600s cressent, (1700s cresent); β. 1500s–1600s croissant, 1600s croysant, croisant; γ. 1600s– crescent.

Etymology: Middle English cressant , in 16th cent. also croissant , < Old French creissant , modern French croissant ( < Latin crēscent-em ), present participle of Old French creistre , modern croître < Latin crēscĕre to grow. In 17th cent. assimilated to the Latin spelling, already used in the adjective: see crescent adj.Latin crescens meant simply ‘growing, waxing’; Columella has luna crescens , the waxing moon, luna decrescens , the waning moon; but these words had no reference to shape; sense 2 was a mediæval development, apparently in French.

1. The waxing moon, during the period between new moon and full. [Compare Old French creissant the waxing of the moon, the first half of the month.] Also figurative.

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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > crescent moon

crescent1530

increscent1572

quarter moon1601

meniscus1686

sharp moon1686

sickle-moon1876

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 210/2 Cressent, the newe mone as long as it is nat rounde, cressant.

?1623 O. Felltham Resolues xxviii. 88 Thus while he sinnes, he is a Decressant; when he repents, a Cressant.1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 186 They are Crescents in their waxing, full Seas in their flowing.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccxxvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 57 A worke 'bove Nature's power, To make his Crescent Orbed in an Hower.

2. The convexo-concave figure of the waxing or the waning moon, during the first or last quarter, especially when very new or very old.The crescent of the waxing moon has its horns to the observer's left (in the northern hemisphere), that of the waning moon has them to the observer's right. In the southern hemisphere the position of the horns is reversed.

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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > crescent moon > figure of

crescent1578

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xxxi. 489 Turned rounde like a croissant or newe moone.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 237 He is no crescent, and his hornes are inuisible.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. viii. 32 If the higher horne of the saide croisant be more obscure and darke then the lower.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Croissant, the halfe-moone; in Blazon, a Cressant.

1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xliv. 232 Phœbe's pale cresent.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 349 The bright crescent of the moon.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Audley Court in Poems (new ed.) II. 46 A moon, that, just In crescent, dimly rain'd about the leaf Twilights of airy silver.

3. A representation or figure of this phase of the moon:

a. as an ornament or embellishment. (Apparently the earliest sense in English.)

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [noun] > ornamentation or decoration > an ornament > specific

moonc1385

crescent1399

Christmas1706

curly-wurlya1772

cake decoration?1847

stalactite1851

panoply1890

stalactite-work1902

sunburst1921

dabbity1923

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > crescent

crescent1399

lunette1865

sickle-

1399 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 132 Super feretrum Sancti Wilfridi de diversis ornamentis per dictum Johannem deauratis viz. j curc et j anulo et j cressant ex dono Willelmi Bedell.

1483 Cath. Angl. 81/1 A Cressent a bowte þe nek, torques, lunula.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiiij^v This cresant was couered with frettes and knottes made of Iue busshes.

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 127 On his black shooe a silver cressent's worn.

1885 Bible (R.V.) Judges viii. 21 Gideon..took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.

b. Heraldry as a charge: see quot. 1866.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of heavenly bodies or phenomena > [noun] > the moon in its various forms

crescent1486

increscent1572

complement1610

decrement1610

increment1610

decrescent1616

plenitude1863

1486 Bk. St. Alban's, Her. B iij b The ix. baage is Cressauntis that is to say halfe the moone.

1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. d vij b Powderit with croslettys molettys Scresentis smale briddis or other difference.

c1500 Sc. Poem Heraldry (Harl. 6149) 44 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 95 The fader the hole [arms], the eldast son deffer[e]nt, quhiche a labelle; a cressent the secound; third a molet.

1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars ii. xxiii. 32 The noble Percy..With a bright Cressant in his guid-home came.

1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 35 A half-moon, with the horns directed upwards, is a Crescent..A half-moon, with the horns directed towards the dexter, Increscent. A half-moon, with the horns directed towards the sinister, Decrescent.

c. Adopted as a badge or emblem by the Turkish sultans, and used within their dominions as a military and religious symbol; hence figurative the Turkish power, and, as this has been to Christendom in recent times the most formidable and aggressive Muslim power, used rhetorically to symbolize the Muslim religion as a political force, and so opposed to the Cross as the symbol of Christianity.The attribution of the crescent by modern writers to the Saracens of Crusading times and the Moors of Spain is a historical and chronological error.

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society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun]

mammetryc1390

Mahometry1481

Turcism1566

Mahometism1584

Turkery1585

crescent1589

Turkism1597

infidelity1603

Mahometanisma1613

Mohammedry1613

Mohammedism1614

Moorism1620

Islam1625

Mussulmanlik1625

Mahometantism1656

Saracenism1659

Islamism1696

Mussulmanism1731

Mohammedanism1732

Ismaelism1750

Muslimism1777

Islamicism1954

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of heavenly bodies or phenomena > [noun] > the moon in its various forms > badge or emblem of Turkish sultans

crescent1589

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. sig. j^v Selim Emperour of Turkie gaue for his deuice a croissant or new moone, promising to him self increase of glory and enlargement of empire.

1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 162 With the Mahumedan Turks, the Croissant..as a Religious symbole, is..commonly set on the top of their Meschits, Seraglias, Turrets and such like.

16.. A. Marvell Britannia & Raleigh Her true Crusada shall at last pull down The Turkish crescent and the Persian sun.

1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus iv. 90 The Crescent gave way to the Cross, the Turks were broken to pieces.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 43 Why do you dress up one..with a turban and crescent?

1811 W. Scott Don Roderick xxvii. 31 Before the Cross has waned the Crescent's ray.

1823 J. G. Lockhart Flight from Granada in Anc. Spanish Ballads ii Down from the Alhambra's minarets were all the crescents flung.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) iv. 120 To raise the Christian banner, over the crescent of the Saracens.

1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 331 The Crescent was advancing steadily upon Europe.

d. used as the badge of an order of knighthood or as a decorative order.An order of the Crescent was instituted by Charles I of Naples and Sicily in 1268, and revived or reinstituted by René of Anjou in 1464. A Turkish decoration or order of the Crescent for foreigners was instituted by Sultan Selim after the Battle of Aboukir in 1799, being first conferred on Nelson.

4. A figure or outline of anything of this shape.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > crescent

lunary1610

sickle1657

crescent1672

lune1709

demilunea1734

lunette1774

semi-lune1862

1572 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers (R.) The Christian crew came on in forme of battayle pight, And like a cressent cast themselues preparing for to fight.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxiv. 88 A very fair Port..extending it self in the form of a Crescent.]

1672 tr. Descr. Lake of Geneva in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5043 This Lake hath the figure of a Croissant..This Croissant where 'tis largest, which is from Morges to Thonon, is about Five good Leagues over.

1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 92 The breast is distinguished by a crescent of pure white.

1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 1 The centre of a crescent of woods.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 281 As they came near they bent their line into a crescent.

5. A row of houses built in the form of the inner bow of a crescent moon or arc of a circle.First used in the name of ‘the Royal Crescent’ at Bath, afterwards used elsewhere, and hence as a generic name.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings > in crescent or circle

circus1712

crescent1766

1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide vii. i. 45 Old Stucco has just sent His Plan for a House to be built in the Crescent.

1788 Birm. Gaz. 17 Nov. A plan, elevation and section of the intended building to be called the Crescent.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxv. 389 There were blown into the crescent a sedan-chair, with Mrs. Dowler inside.

1868 Lessons Mid. Age 299 The handsome streets, crescents and terraces which form the west end of Glasgow.

6. A small crescent-shaped roll of bread. (U.S.) More fully, crescent roll. (Cf. croissant n.)

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > roll

roll1581

bapc1600

wreath1600

breadcake1635

French roll1652

cookie1701

sugar-roll1727

petit pain1766

souter's clod1773

twist1830

simit1836

bread roll1838

pistolet1853

flute1855

twist-loaf1856

Parker House roll1873

crescent roll1886

bagel1898

Kaiser roll1898

buttery1899

croissant1899

split1905

pan de sal1910

bridge roll1926

Kaiser1927

Kaiser bun1933

Bialystok roll1951

pletzel1952

panini1955

bialy1958

Bialystok1960

1886 Cent. Mag. 32 939 At noon I bought two crisp ‘crescents’, which I ate sometimes at a shop counter.

1899 Daily News 23 Sept. 3/1 Crescent rolls and hot milk.

1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) v. 106 Coffee cups, saucers and crisp crescent rolls in our hands.

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7. A Turkish musical instrument consisting of a staff with arms, ornamented with a crescent on the top, and bearing bells or jingles. (In modern dictionaries.)

8. A disease in a horse's foot (see quots.).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves

pains1440

mellitc1465

false quarter1523

gravelling?1523

founder1547

foundering1548

foot evil1562

crown scab1566

prick1566

quittor bone1566

moltlong1587

scratches1591

hoof-bound1598

corn1600

javar1600

frush1607

crepance1610

fretishing1610

seam1610

scratchets1611

kibe1639

tread1661

grease1674

gravel1675

twitter-bone1688

cleft1694

quittor1703

bleymes1725

crescent1725

hoof-binding1728

capelet1731

twitter1745

canker1753

grease-heels1753

sand-crack1753

thrush1753

greasing1756

bony hoof1765

seedy toe1829

side bone1840

cracked heel1850

mud fever1872

navicular1888

coronitis1890

toe-crack1891

flat-foot1894

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) Crescents..are really nothing but the Bones of the little Foot that has left its Place, and fallen downwards, and the Sole at the Toe appears round, and the Hoof above shrinks in.

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Crescent, a defect in the foot of a horse when the coffin-bone falls down, and presses the sole outwards.

9. Lace-making. (See quot. 1882.)

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1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 94/2 These crescents are raised Cordonnets that enclose the flat stitches of needle point laces or join the separate pieces of work together.

Compounds

crescent-formed, crescent-lit, crescent-pointed, crescent-shaped adjs.; crescent-like, crescent-wise adverbs.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adverb] > like a crescent

moonlike1581

crescent-like1612

lunately1872

crescentically1873

the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > crescent-shaped

moon-shaped1763

crescent-shaped1776

lunate1777

moonleted1787

the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > crescent-shaped

hornedc1400

semilunar1598

crescent1603

moony1605

mooned1607

half-mooned1611

lunary1623

lunar1635

semilunary1638

lunated1673

lunulated1705

moon-shaped1709

semi-lunated1726

lunular1728

lunulate1760

sickle-shaped1764

crescent-shaped1776

lunate1777

moonified1795

crescented1818

crescentic1835

semilunate1841

crescentric1851

demilune1885

crescentoid1887

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 82 As, Crescent-like the Land her bredth here inward bends.

1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 316 Keel crescent-shaped, compressed.

1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. iii. 184 The Sun, Whose crescent-pointed horns Now momently decrease.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

crescentadj.

/ˈkrɛsənt/

Forms: 1500s crescente, 1600s cressent, 1600s croissant, 1600s– crescent.

Etymology: < Latin crēscent-em, present participle of crēscĕre to grow, increase: see -ent suffix. In II mostly attributive use of crescent n.

I. That grows or develops.

1. Growing, increasing, developing. (Often with some allusion to the moon.)

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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective]

waxing1297

multiplyinga1400

augmentive1483

breeding1552

crescent1568

growingc1587

enhancinga1592

creasing1592

teeming1597

increasing1600

auctive1634

echinga1644

multiplicating1661

gliscent1669

enlarging1694

augmenting1745

swelling1854

1568 T. Hill Certaine Husbandly Coniectures i. f. 55^v, in Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) When all crescente thinges doe budde furthe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. i. 10 My powers are Cressent, and my Auguring hope Sayes it will come to'th'full.

a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xiii. 186 In the first, the Pope was but Antichrist nascent; In the second, Antichrist crescent; In the third Antichrist regnant.

1834 W. Wordsworth Lines on Portrait 47 Childhood here, a moon Crescent in simple loveliness serene.

1845 T. De Quincey Coleridge & Opium-eating in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 125/1 The wrath of Andrew, previously in a crescent state, actually dilated to a plenilunar orb.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 170 There is many a youth Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it.

II. Moon-shaped.

2. Shaped like the new or old moon; convexo-concave, lunulate.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > crescent-shaped

hornedc1400

semilunar1598

crescent1603

moony1605

mooned1607

half-mooned1611

lunary1623

lunar1635

semilunary1638

lunated1673

lunulated1705

moon-shaped1709

semi-lunated1726

lunular1728

lunulate1760

sickle-shaped1764

crescent-shaped1776

lunate1777

moonified1795

crescented1818

crescentic1835

semilunate1841

crescentric1851

demilune1885

crescentoid1887

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Rom. Quest. (1892) 33 The moone..beginneth to show herself croissant in the evening.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 100 Marked with the Moone Crescent, which is the Turkish Ensigne.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 439 With these in troop Came..Astarte, Queen of Heav'n, with crescent Horns.

1726 D. Turner in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 411 An Insect..with..a crescent or forked Tail.

1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. xi. 273 Galileo discovered that Venus had the same crescent phases as the waxing and the waning moon.

1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 359 New Orleans is called the ‘crescent city’ in consequence of its being built on a curve of the river.

Compounds

Crescent City n. U.S. With the: New Orleans.

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?1855 M. Reid Hunters' Feast i. 7 Most of them were the annual birds of passage from New Orleans,..sojourning here till the cold frosty winds of November should drive that intruder [sc. yellow fever] from the ‘crescent city’.

1890 Congr. Rec. 27 May 5349/1 That majestic inland sea, whose importance..gives to the ‘Crescent City’ the second position in the list of export cities of the western hemisphere.

1909 Springfield Weekly Republican 11 Mar. 1 He never was in New Orleans, and ..the president was in the Crescent City about a month ago.

Crescent citizen n. a native of New Orleans.

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1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner in New Orleans 64 Your true-blooded Crescent citizen.

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单词	crescent
释义	crescentn. /ˈkrɛsənt/ Forms: α. Middle English–1600s cressant, Middle English cressaunt, ( screscent), Middle English–1600s cressent, (1700s cresent); β. 1500s–1600s croissant, 1600s croysant, croisant; γ. 1600s– crescent. Etymology: Middle English cressant , in 16th cent. also croissant , < Old French creissant , modern French croissant ( < Latin crēscent-em ), present participle of Old French creistre , modern croître < Latin crēscĕre to grow. In 17th cent. assimilated to the Latin spelling, already used in the adjective: see crescent adj.Latin crescens meant simply ‘growing, waxing’; Columella has luna crescens , the waxing moon, luna decrescens , the waning moon; but these words had no reference to shape; sense 2 was a mediæval development, apparently in French. 1. The waxing moon, during the period between new moon and full. [Compare Old French creissant the waxing of the moon, the first half of the month.] Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > crescent moon crescent1530 increscent1572 quarter moon1601 meniscus1686 sharp moon1686 sickle-moon1876 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 210/2 Cressent, the newe mone as long as it is nat rounde, cressant. ?1623 O. Felltham Resolues xxviii. 88 Thus while he sinnes, he is a Decressant; when he repents, a Cressant.1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 186 They are Crescents in their waxing, full Seas in their flowing.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccxxvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 57 A worke 'bove Nature's power, To make his Crescent Orbed in an Hower. 2. The convexo-concave figure of the waxing or the waning moon, during the first or last quarter, especially when very new or very old.The crescent of the waxing moon has its horns to the observer's left (in the northern hemisphere), that of the waning moon has them to the observer's right. In the southern hemisphere the position of the horns is reversed. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > crescent moon > figure of crescent1578 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xxxi. 489 Turned rounde like a croissant or newe moone. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 237 He is no crescent, and his hornes are inuisible. View more context for this quotation 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. viii. 32 If the higher horne of the saide croisant be more obscure and darke then the lower. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Croissant, the halfe-moone; in Blazon, a Cressant. 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xliv. 232 Phœbe's pale cresent. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 349 The bright crescent of the moon. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Audley Court in Poems (new ed.) II. 46 A moon, that, just In crescent, dimly rain'd about the leaf Twilights of airy silver. 3. A representation or figure of this phase of the moon: a. as an ornament or embellishment. (Apparently the earliest sense in English.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [noun] > ornamentation or decoration > an ornament > specific moonc1385 crescent1399 Christmas1706 curly-wurlya1772 cake decoration?1847 stalactite1851 panoply1890 stalactite-work1902 sunburst1921 dabbity1923 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > crescent crescent1399 lunette1865 sickle- 1399 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 132 Super feretrum Sancti Wilfridi de diversis ornamentis per dictum Johannem deauratis viz. j curc et j anulo et j cressant ex dono Willelmi Bedell. 1483 Cath. Angl. 81/1 A Cressent a bowte þe nek, torques, lunula. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiiij^v This cresant was couered with frettes and knottes made of Iue busshes. 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 127 On his black shooe a silver cressent's worn. 1885 Bible (R.V.) Judges viii. 21 Gideon..took the crescents that were on their camels' necks. b. Heraldry as a charge: see quot. 1866. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of heavenly bodies or phenomena > [noun] > the moon in its various forms crescent1486 increscent1572 complement1610 decrement1610 increment1610 decrescent1616 plenitude1863 1486 Bk. St. Alban's, Her. B iij b The ix. baage is Cressauntis that is to say halfe the moone. 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. d vij b Powderit with croslettys molettys Scresentis smale briddis or other difference. c1500 Sc. Poem Heraldry (Harl. 6149) 44 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 95 The fader the hole [arms], the eldast son deffer[e]nt, quhiche a labelle; a cressent the secound; third a molet. 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars ii. xxiii. 32 The noble Percy..With a bright Cressant in his guid-home came. 1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 35 A half-moon, with the horns directed upwards, is a Crescent..A half-moon, with the horns directed towards the dexter, Increscent. A half-moon, with the horns directed towards the sinister, Decrescent. c. Adopted as a badge or emblem by the Turkish sultans, and used within their dominions as a military and religious symbol; hence figurative the Turkish power, and, as this has been to Christendom in recent times the most formidable and aggressive Muslim power, used rhetorically to symbolize the Muslim religion as a political force, and so opposed to the Cross as the symbol of Christianity.The attribution of the crescent by modern writers to the Saracens of Crusading times and the Moors of Spain is a historical and chronological error. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun] mammetryc1390 Mahometry1481 Turcism1566 Mahometism1584 Turkery1585 crescent1589 Turkism1597 infidelity1603 Mahometanisma1613 Mohammedry1613 Mohammedism1614 Moorism1620 Islam1625 Mussulmanlik1625 Mahometantism1656 Saracenism1659 Islamism1696 Mussulmanism1731 Mohammedanism1732 Ismaelism1750 Muslimism1777 Islamicism1954 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of heavenly bodies or phenomena > [noun] > the moon in its various forms > badge or emblem of Turkish sultans crescent1589 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. sig. j^v Selim Emperour of Turkie gaue for his deuice a croissant or new moone, promising to him self increase of glory and enlargement of empire. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 162 With the Mahumedan Turks, the Croissant..as a Religious symbole, is..commonly set on the top of their Meschits, Seraglias, Turrets and such like. 16.. A. Marvell Britannia & Raleigh Her true Crusada shall at last pull down The Turkish crescent and the Persian sun. 1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus iv. 90 The Crescent gave way to the Cross, the Turks were broken to pieces. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 43 Why do you dress up one..with a turban and crescent? 1811 W. Scott Don Roderick xxvii. 31 Before the Cross has waned the Crescent's ray. 1823 J. G. Lockhart Flight from Granada in Anc. Spanish Ballads ii Down from the Alhambra's minarets were all the crescents flung. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) iv. 120 To raise the Christian banner, over the crescent of the Saracens. 1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 331 The Crescent was advancing steadily upon Europe. d. used as the badge of an order of knighthood or as a decorative order.An order of the Crescent was instituted by Charles I of Naples and Sicily in 1268, and revived or reinstituted by René of Anjou in 1464. A Turkish decoration or order of the Crescent for foreigners was instituted by Sultan Selim after the Battle of Aboukir in 1799, being first conferred on Nelson. 4. A figure or outline of anything of this shape. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > crescent lunary1610 sickle1657 crescent1672 lune1709 demilunea1734 lunette1774 semi-lune1862 1572 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers (R.) The Christian crew came on in forme of battayle pight, And like a cressent cast themselues preparing for to fight. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxiv. 88 A very fair Port..extending it self in the form of a Crescent.] 1672 tr. Descr. Lake of Geneva in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5043 This Lake hath the figure of a Croissant..This Croissant where 'tis largest, which is from Morges to Thonon, is about Five good Leagues over. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 92 The breast is distinguished by a crescent of pure white. 1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 1 The centre of a crescent of woods. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 281 As they came near they bent their line into a crescent. 5. A row of houses built in the form of the inner bow of a crescent moon or arc of a circle.First used in the name of ‘the Royal Crescent’ at Bath, afterwards used elsewhere, and hence as a generic name. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings > in crescent or circle circus1712 crescent1766 1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide vii. i. 45 Old Stucco has just sent His Plan for a House to be built in the Crescent. 1788 Birm. Gaz. 17 Nov. A plan, elevation and section of the intended building to be called the Crescent. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxv. 389 There were blown into the crescent a sedan-chair, with Mrs. Dowler inside. 1868 Lessons Mid. Age 299 The handsome streets, crescents and terraces which form the west end of Glasgow. 6. A small crescent-shaped roll of bread. (U.S.) More fully, crescent roll. (Cf. croissant n.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > roll roll1581 bapc1600 wreath1600 breadcake1635 French roll1652 cookie1701 sugar-roll1727 petit pain1766 souter's clod1773 twist1830 simit1836 bread roll1838 pistolet1853 flute1855 twist-loaf1856 Parker House roll1873 crescent roll1886 bagel1898 Kaiser roll1898 buttery1899 croissant1899 split1905 pan de sal1910 bridge roll1926 Kaiser1927 Kaiser bun1933 Bialystok roll1951 pletzel1952 panini1955 bialy1958 Bialystok1960 1886 Cent. Mag. 32 939 At noon I bought two crisp ‘crescents’, which I ate sometimes at a shop counter. 1899 Daily News 23 Sept. 3/1 Crescent rolls and hot milk. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) v. 106 Coffee cups, saucers and crisp crescent rolls in our hands. Categories » 7. A Turkish musical instrument consisting of a staff with arms, ornamented with a crescent on the top, and bearing bells or jingles. (In modern dictionaries.) 8. A disease in a horse's foot (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of feet or hooves pains1440 mellitc1465 false quarter1523 gravelling?1523 founder1547 foundering1548 foot evil1562 crown scab1566 prick1566 quittor bone1566 moltlong1587 scratches1591 hoof-bound1598 corn1600 javar1600 frush1607 crepance1610 fretishing1610 seam1610 scratchets1611 kibe1639 tread1661 grease1674 gravel1675 twitter-bone1688 cleft1694 quittor1703 bleymes1725 crescent1725 hoof-binding1728 capelet1731 twitter1745 canker1753 grease-heels1753 sand-crack1753 thrush1753 greasing1756 bony hoof1765 seedy toe1829 side bone1840 cracked heel1850 mud fever1872 navicular1888 coronitis1890 toe-crack1891 flat-foot1894 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) Crescents..are really nothing but the Bones of the little Foot that has left its Place, and fallen downwards, and the Sole at the Toe appears round, and the Hoof above shrinks in. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Crescent, a defect in the foot of a horse when the coffin-bone falls down, and presses the sole outwards. 9. Lace-making. (See quot. 1882.) ΚΠ 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 94/2 These crescents are raised Cordonnets that enclose the flat stitches of needle point laces or join the separate pieces of work together. Compounds crescent-formed, crescent-lit, crescent-pointed, crescent-shaped adjs.; crescent-like, crescent-wise adverbs. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adverb] > like a crescent moonlike1581 crescent-like1612 lunately1872 crescentically1873 the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > crescent-shaped moon-shaped1763 crescent-shaped1776 lunate1777 moonleted1787 the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > crescent-shaped hornedc1400 semilunar1598 crescent1603 moony1605 mooned1607 half-mooned1611 lunary1623 lunar1635 semilunary1638 lunated1673 lunulated1705 moon-shaped1709 semi-lunated1726 lunular1728 lunulate1760 sickle-shaped1764 crescent-shaped1776 lunate1777 moonified1795 crescented1818 crescentic1835 semilunate1841 crescentric1851 demilune1885 crescentoid1887 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 82 As, Crescent-like the Land her bredth here inward bends. 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 316 Keel crescent-shaped, compressed. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. iii. 184 The Sun, Whose crescent-pointed horns Now momently decrease. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021). crescentadj. /ˈkrɛsənt/ Forms: 1500s crescente, 1600s cressent, 1600s croissant, 1600s– crescent. Etymology: < Latin crēscent-em, present participle of crēscĕre to grow, increase: see -ent suffix. In II mostly attributive use of crescent n. I. That grows or develops. 1. Growing, increasing, developing. (Often with some allusion to the moon.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] waxing1297 multiplyinga1400 augmentive1483 breeding1552 crescent1568 growingc1587 enhancinga1592 creasing1592 teeming1597 increasing1600 auctive1634 echinga1644 multiplicating1661 gliscent1669 enlarging1694 augmenting1745 swelling1854 1568 T. Hill Certaine Husbandly Coniectures i. f. 55^v, in Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) When all crescente thinges doe budde furthe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. i. 10 My powers are Cressent, and my Auguring hope Sayes it will come to'th'full. a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xiii. 186 In the first, the Pope was but Antichrist nascent; In the second, Antichrist crescent; In the third Antichrist regnant. 1834 W. Wordsworth Lines on Portrait 47 Childhood here, a moon Crescent in simple loveliness serene. 1845 T. De Quincey Coleridge & Opium-eating in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 125/1 The wrath of Andrew, previously in a crescent state, actually dilated to a plenilunar orb. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 170 There is many a youth Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it. II. Moon-shaped. 2. Shaped like the new or old moon; convexo-concave, lunulate. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > crescent-shaped hornedc1400 semilunar1598 crescent1603 moony1605 mooned1607 half-mooned1611 lunary1623 lunar1635 semilunary1638 lunated1673 lunulated1705 moon-shaped1709 semi-lunated1726 lunular1728 lunulate1760 sickle-shaped1764 crescent-shaped1776 lunate1777 moonified1795 crescented1818 crescentic1835 semilunate1841 crescentric1851 demilune1885 crescentoid1887 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Rom. Quest. (1892) 33 The moone..beginneth to show herself croissant in the evening. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 100 Marked with the Moone Crescent, which is the Turkish Ensigne. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 439 With these in troop Came..Astarte, Queen of Heav'n, with crescent Horns. View more context for this quotation 1726 D. Turner in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 411 An Insect..with..a crescent or forked Tail. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. xi. 273 Galileo discovered that Venus had the same crescent phases as the waxing and the waning moon. 1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 359 New Orleans is called the ‘crescent city’ in consequence of its being built on a curve of the river. Compounds Crescent City n. U.S. With the: New Orleans. ΚΠ ?1855 M. Reid Hunters' Feast i. 7 Most of them were the annual birds of passage from New Orleans,..sojourning here till the cold frosty winds of November should drive that intruder [sc. yellow fever] from the ‘crescent city’. 1890 Congr. Rec. 27 May 5349/1 That majestic inland sea, whose importance..gives to the ‘Crescent City’ the second position in the list of export cities of the western hemisphere. 1909 Springfield Weekly Republican 11 Mar. 1 He never was in New Orleans, and ..the president was in the Crescent City about a month ago. Crescent citizen n. a native of New Orleans. ΚΠ 1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner in New Orleans 64 Your true-blooded Crescent citizen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). crescentv. Etymology: < crescent n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcrescent. 1. transitive. To form into a crescent: see crescented adj.Apparently an isolated use. 2. To border or surround crescent-wise. ΚΠ a1809 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 195 (T.) A dark wood crescents more than half the lawn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1399adj.1568v.a1809
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