moonshining (mons hi"ning)

[ The poet and the novelist... might (if they shut their eyes) make this season [of hop-picking] as romantic as vintage-time on the Rhine, or moonshining on the Southern mountains. C. D. Warner , Their Pilgrimage, p. 288. moonshiny (mön's hin i), a. [ I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Add is on . 2. Visionary; unreal; fictitious; nonsensical. Here were no vague moonshiny ideals. The Century , XXXI. 186. moon-sickt (mön's ik), a . Crazy; lunatic. Da vies. If his itch proceed from a moon - sick head, the chief intention is to settle his brains. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 502.