Vocabulary : Crepuscular to Crescive

Crepuscular : Alt. of Crepusculous
Crepuscule : Twilight.
Crepusculine : Crepuscular.
Crepusculous : Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. ;; Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects.
Crescence : Increase; enlargement.

Crescendo : With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score. ;; A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed. ;; A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
Crescent : The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state. ;; Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon. ;; A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge ;; A symbol of Artemis, or Diana. ;; The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople. ;; The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople. ;; Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services. ;; 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. ;; Shaped like a crescent. ;; Increasing; growing. ;; To form into a crescent, or s
Crescentic : Crescent-shaped.
Crescentwise : In the form of a crescent; like a crescent.
Crescive : Increasing; growing.

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