Crossword-Solution: INCRESCENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Increscent | a. | Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging. |
| Increscent | a. | Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Waxing, as the moon. | 1 answer |
| Waxing | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with INCRESCENT (2)
Rough grey rocks, and little blue lochans, edged with flags, and mottled in their season with water-lilies, glimmered dim and uncertain in the imperfect light as we passed; but ere we reached the inn of Flowerdale in Gairloch, every object stood out clear, though cold, in the increscent light of morning; and a few light streaks of cloud, poised in the east over the unrisen sun, were gradually exchanging their gleam of pale bronze for a deep flush of mingled blood and fire.
The crescent is employed as a charge in heraldry, with its horns vertical; when they are turned to the dexter side of the shield, it is called increscent, when to the sinister, decrescent.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1951–1970).