moonling

[Eng. moon; suff.ling. [A simpleton, a fool, an idiot. "I have a husband, and a two-legged one, But such a moonling !" Ben Jonson: The Devil is an A , i. 3. *moôn-loved, adj . [English moon , and loved .] Naut.: An epithet applied to a ship whose upper Beloved by the moon. ( Milton: Nativity, 236.) moon-seed, s. Bot.: The genus Menispermum (q. v.). moon-shaped, a. Crescent-shaped. moon-sheered, a. works rise very high fore and aft. moon-trefoil, s. Bot.: Medicago arborea. [MEDICAGO.J moon-year, s. A lunar year. [YEAR.] moôn, v. t. & i. [MOON, 8.] A. Transitive : 1. To adorn with a moon; to mark with crescents or moons. 2. To expose to the rays of the moon. "The whole population will be in the streets mooning themselves." - Kingsley: Life , ii. 175. ... B. In trans.: To wander or loaf idly about as if moonstruck. "Spend their time in mooning up in that island of theirs."-Black: Prince of Thule , ch. xxvii.