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Moon

noun

1.

The natural satellite of the Earth. "Men first stepped on the moon in 1969"

2.

Any object resembling a moon. "The clock had a moon that showed various phases"

3.

The period between successive new moons (29.531 days). Synonyms: lunar month, lunation, synodic month.

4.

The light of the Moon. Synonyms: moonlight, moonshine. "The Moon was bright enough to read by"

5.

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). Synonym: Sun Myung Moon.

6.

Any natural satellite of a planet.

verb

(past & past part. mooned; pres. part. mooning)

1.

Have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake. Synonym: daydream.

2.

Be idle in a listless or dreamy way. Synonyms: moon around, moon on.

3.

Expose one's buttocks to.

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"Moon" Quotes from Famous Books

... The moon set at ten o'clock, and then too was felt the first breath of a thunder-storm, which had been for some time gathering. The Carondelet swung from her moorings and started down the stream. The guns were run ...

— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan

... naked demons flitting among the clouds. The air was filled with the brands of the beacon, and a heavy darkness succeeded, not unlike that of the appalling instant, when the last rays of the sun are excluded by the intervening mass of the moon. A yell of triumph burst from the savages in their turn, and was rather accompanied than followed by a long, loud whine ...

— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper

... Some gay gondolier, I'll whisper thee, trembling, "Our bark, love, is near: "Now, now, while there hover "Those clouds o'er the moon, "'Twill waft thee ...

— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... ground was rising; but the outlook was cheerless enough, until the moon on a sudden emerged from a bank of cloud and disclosed the landscape. Mr. Thomasson uttered a cry of relief. Fifty paces before them the low wall on the right of the lane was broken by a pillared gateway, whence the dark thread of ...

— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman

... the season of the northern and southern movements. Such birds migrate chiefly at night and have been observed through telescopes at high altitudes. Such observations are made by pointing the telescope at the disk of the full moon on clear nights. On cloudy or foggy nights the birds fly lower, as may be known by the clearer sounds of their calls as they pass over; at times one may even hear the flutter of their wings. There is a {68} good reason for their ...

— The Bird Study Book • Thomas Gilbert Pearson

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