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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



... had long gone out. It was warm for the time of year; but had it been otherwise he would not have replenished it. The candles, too, had burned out, and the moon-beams were streaming through the window; but had it been dark he would scarce have been aware of it. The house had long ago been hushed in repose, and yet Richard felt certain that he had heard a movement in ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn
... he spurred on at a gallop, finding some relief in the pounding action of the saddle and in the rush of air past his ears. The moon was late, but when it came it seemed to help him, lightening his mood as it lightened the trail. The big ledges and lowering, lesser peaks lifted into the dark sky weirdly translucent, and their upper edges ...
— The Spirit of Sweetwater • Hamlin Garland
... ceased entirely now, and just as she reached the ranch gate, which had swung half to on its hinges and was stuck there in the snow, the moon came out and revealed the wide white expanse, unbroken by any sign of the road. She felt sure that the search-parties would have followed the road as closely as possible and that they would have tried not to stray off into the field. But that was just where Stephen Burns, mindful of the perils ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller
... the sunset paled, and warmed once more With a softer, tenderer after-glow; In the east was moon-rise, with boats off-shore And sails in the distance drifting slow. The beacon glimmered from Portsmouth bar, The White Isle kindled its great red star; And life and death in my old-time lay Mingled in peace like ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864 • Various
... huge legs out of the hammock, took a seat near Jim, and, reaching out, he gently closed his immense fist around the little white hand of the boy. Then leaning forward until his black face, as broad as the moon, was almost against ...
— Brave Tom - The Battle That Won • Edward S. Ellis


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