moon : Idioms & Phrases

• the increase of the moon's mean motion in its orbit, in consequence of which its period of revolution is now shorter than in ancient times.

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• noun a long time
  
  • something that happens once in blue moon almost never happens

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• a period of 19 years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon returns to the same day of the year; so called from Meton, who first proposed it.

Webster 1913

• noun the time when the Moon is fully illuminated
  full moon; full; full phase of the moon.
  
  • the moon is at the full

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• . (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full.

Webster 1913

• noun leaves deeply incised and bright red in autumn; Japan
  Acer japonicum; Japanese maple.
  

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• the time of full moon.

Webster 1913

• noun the time when the Moon is fully illuminated
  full moon; full; full phase of the moon.
  
  • the moon is at the full

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• noun the time when the Moon is fully illuminated
  full moon; full; full phase of the moon.
  
  • the moon is at the full

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• noun the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail
  lunula; lunule.
  
• noun the time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated
  

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Half"-moon` noun

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1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.
2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.

   See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.

3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.
4. (Zoöl.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Cæsiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.

Webster 1913

• noun the full moon nearest the September equinox
  

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• the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England, or about the autumnal equinox, when, by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days.

Webster 1913

• any one of those small periodical changes in the position of the moon's surface relatively to the earth, in consequence of which narrow portions at opposite limbs become visible or invisible alternately. It receives different names according to the manner in which it takes place; as: (a) Libration in longitude, that which, depending on the place of the moon in its elliptic orbit, causes small portions near the eastern and western borders alternately to appear and disappear each month. (b) Libration in latitude, that which depends on the varying position of the moon's axis in respect to the spectator, causing the alternate appearance and disappearance of either pole. (c) Diurnal or parallactic libration, that which brings into view on the upper limb, at rising and setting, some parts not in the average visible hemisphere.

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• verb be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
  mope; moon about.
  

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• verb be idle in a listless or dreamy way
  moon around; moon.
  
• verb be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
  mope; moon about.
  

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• noun inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder
  night blindness; nyctalopia.
  
• noun recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness
  mooneye.
  

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• . (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks . (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia.

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• noun any plant of the genus Seseli having dense umbels of small white or pink flowers and finely divided foliage
  stone parsley.
  

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• noun someone who imports or exports without paying duties
  runner; contrabandist; smuggler; moon curser.
  

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• noun tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum
  ox-eyed daisy; white daisy; oxeye daisy; Chrysanthemum leucanthemum; Leucanthemum vulgare; marguerite.
  

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• a dial used to indicate time by moonlight.

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• a round face like a full moon.

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• lunacy. Poetic

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• a lunar month.

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• verb be idle in a listless or dreamy way
  moon around; moon.
  

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• noun a ray of moonlight
  moonbeam; moon ray.
  

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• noun marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires
  moonshell.
  

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• noun the launching of a spacecraft to the moon
  

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• noun evergreen shrub of southern European highlands having downy foliage and a succession of yellow flowers throughout the summer followed by curious snail-shaped pods
  Medicago arborea.
  

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• (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic (Medicago arborea). See Medic.

Webster 1913

• a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.

Webster 1913

Moon"-cul"mi*na`ting adjective

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1. Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.

Webster 1913

• noun someone who imports or exports without paying duties
  runner; contrabandist; smuggler; moon curser.
  

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Moon"-eye` noun

Definitions

1. A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters. (b) The cisco.

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Moon"-eyed` adjective

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1. Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.

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• adjective satellite having a round face
  round-faced.
  

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Moon"-faced` adjective

Definitions

1. Having a round, full face.

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• noun a ray of moonlight
  moonbeam; moon ray.
  

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• adjective satellite resembling the moon in shape
  moonlike.
  

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• adjective satellite splashed or covered patchily with moonlight
  
  • the moon-splashed world

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• noun the worship of the moon
  selenolatry.
  

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• noun the time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent
  new moon.
  

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• . (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible . (b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. 2 Kings iv. 23.

Webster 1913

• noun the time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent
  new moon.
  

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• noun a time when the Moon presents a particular recurring appearance
  

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• the new moon at its first appearance.

Webster 1913

• (Astron.), the position of the moon when one half of the disk is illuminated.

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• noun United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920)
  Moon.
  

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• (Astron.), an inequality of the moon's motion, depending on the angular distance of the moon from the sun. It is greater at the octants, and zero at the quadratures.

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