Moon

mōōn, n. the secondary planet or satellite which revolves round the earth monthly, shining with reflected light: a satellite revolving about any other planet; a month: anything in the shape of a moon or crescent: ( fort. ) a crescent-shaped outwork.— v.t. to adorn with moons or crescents.— v.i. to wander about or gaze vacantly at anything.— n. Moon′beam , a beam of light from the moon.— adj. Moon′-blind , dim-sighted, purblind.— ns. Moon′calf , a monster, a deformed creature: a dolt.— n.pl. Moon′-culm inā′tions , times of culmination of the limb of the moon with certain neighbouring stars, formerly used in determining longitude.— adj. Mooned , of or like the moon: having the figure of the moon marked upon it.— ns. Moon′er , one who moons about; Moon′eye , a disease affecting horses' eyes: a name of several American fishes; Moon′face , a full, round face—a point of beauty in the East.— adj. Moon′faced .— ns. Moon′-fish , a name applied to various fishes; Moon′-flower , the ox-eye daisy; Moon′-glade , the track of moonlight on water.— adj. Moon′ish , like the moon: variable: inconstant.— n. Moon′-knife , a crescent-shaped knife used by leather-workers in shaving off the fleshy parts of skins.— adj. Moon′le , destitute of moonlight.— n. Moon′light , the light of the moon—sunlight reflected from the moon's surface.— adj. lighted by the moon: occurring during moonlight.— ns. Moon′lighter , one of a band of cowardly ruffians in Ireland who committed agrarian outrages by night about 1880: a moonshiner; Moon′lighting .— adjs. Moon′lit , lit or illumined by the moon; Moon′-loved , loved by the moon.— ns. Moon′-mad′ne , lunacy, supposed to be caused by sleeping in full moonlight; Moon′-rak′er , a silly person; Moon′-rak′ing , the following of crazy fancies; Moon′-sail , a small sail, sometimes carried above the sky-scraper; Moon′-set , the setting of the moon; Moon′shine , the shining of the moon: ( fig. ) show without reality: poached eggs with sauce: a month: ( U.S. ) smuggled spirits; Moon′shiner , a smuggler or illicit distiller of spirits.— adj. Moon′shiny , lighted by the moon: visionary, unreal.— n. Moon′-stone , a variety of feldspar presenting a pearly reflection from within.— adj. Moon′struck , affected by the moon, lunatic, crazed.— n. Moon′wort , any fern of the genus Botrychium .— adj. Moon′y , relating to, or like, the moon or a crescent, bearing a crescent: round, as a shield: like moonlight, lighted by the moon: silly: sickly: tipsy.— n. a noodle.— Moonlight flitting , a removal of one's furniture, ., during night, to prevent it being seized for rent or debt. [A.S. móna ; cf. Ger. mond , L. mens is , Gr. mēnē .]