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Moon   /mun/   Listen
noun
Moon  n.  
1.
The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month. "The crescent moon, the diadem of night."
2.
A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
3.
The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month; as, it's been many moons since I last visited Washington.
4.
(Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
5.
The deliberately exposed naked buttocks. (slang)
Moon blindness.
(a)
(Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks.
(b)
(Med.) Hemeralopia.
Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight.
Moon face, a round face like a full moon.
Moon madness, lunacy. (Poetic)
Moon month, a lunar month.
Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic (Medicago arborea). See Medic.
Moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.
blue moon, see blue moon in the vocabulary.
many moons, a long time.


verb
Moon  v. t.  (past & past part. mooned; pres. part. mooning)  
1.
To expose to the rays of the moon. "If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned."
2.
To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); a vulgar sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank.


Moon  v. i.  To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner. "Elsley was mooning down the river by himself."





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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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