moonface (monfas)

A full round face-according to Oriental ideas, one of the principal features of beauty in a woman. IMG:content-0930.png:[blocks in formation] He.. surveyed the beauties of his time as the Caliph Fly after the night-steeds, leaving their moon - lov'd maze. Milton, Nativity, 1. 236 the moonfaces of his harem. Thackeray, New comes, liii. moon-faced (mön'fast), a. 1. Having a round face like the rising full moon: usually in contempt.-2. Having a radiant or beautiful face. Maud, the beloved of my mother, the moon - faced darling of all. Tennyson, Maud, i. moon-fern (mön'fèrn), n. trychium Lunaria. moonfish (mön' fish), n. The moonwort, Bo A name of several fishes. (a) The sunfish, Mola rotunda: so called from its shape. [Local, Eng.] ( b ) A carangoid fish. Selene vomer, the horse head or lookdown, having a much-compre ed body, a very deep head abruptly angulated at the occiput, and smooth silvery skin. (c) A stromateid fish, Stromateus (or Peprilus ) alepidotus, the harvest-fish. [Florida, U. S.] (d) An ephippioid fish. Chætodipterus (or Parephippus ) fa ber, also called angel - fish, spade - fish, three -banded sheeps head, and three - tailed porgy. [Local, U. S.] (e) The horse fish, Vomer setipinnis. Also called dollar - fish. See cuts un IMG:content-0931.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0932.png:[blocks in formation] Shelley, Revolt of Islam, vi. 17. moon-mant (mön'man), n. 1. A lunatic. See quotation under def. 2.-2. A Gipsy. A mooneman signifies in English a madman.... By a by-name they are called Gipsies, they call themselves Egiptians, others in mockery call them moonemen . Dekker, Lanthorne and Candle-Light, viii. moon-month (mön'munth), n. A lunar month. See month. moon-penny (mön'pen"i), n. The oxeye daisy, Chrysanthemum Leu can the mum. moon-plant (mön'plant), n. Same as soma- plant . moon-raker (mönʼrā"ker), n . 1. A stupid or silly person: said to refer primarily to one who, mistaking the moon's shadow in water for a cheese, set himself to rake it out.-2. Naut ., same as moon - sail . moon-flower (mön'flou"ėr), n . 1. The oxeye daisy, Chrysanthemum Leu can the mum.-2. A ing. See moon - raker , 1.