Word Meanings - CRESCENTWISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

CRESCENT
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. (more info) sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr.
CRESCENTIC
Crescent-shaped. "Crescentic lobes." R. Owen.
TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
CRESCENTWISE
In the form of a crescent; like a crescent. Tennyson.
SUPERCRESCENT
Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson.
EXCRESCENTIAL
Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. Hawthorne.
BICRESCENTIC
Having the form of a double crescent.
EXCRESCENT
Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity. Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. Pope. Excrescent letter , a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder is an excrescent letter.
INCRESCENT
Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side. (more info) 1. Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging. Between the incresent and decrescent moon. Tennyson.
DECRESCENT
Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.
ACCRESCENT
Growing larger after flowering. Gray. (more info) 1. Growing; increasing. Shuckford.
EQUICRESCENT
Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable.