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noun • A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. • A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles. • Anything crescent-shaped. • (hawking) A leash for a hawk. | ||||||||
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noun • any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters adjective satellite • resembling the new moon in shape | ||||||||
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noun • A fortification constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. • A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands. | ||||||||
Crescents Crossword Clue
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