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Moonshine   /mˈunʃˌaɪn/   Listen
noun
Moonshine  n.  
1.
The light of the moon.
2.
Hence, show without substance or reality.
3.
A month. (R.)
4.
A preparation of eggs for food. (Obs.)
5.
Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled, especially liquor distilled illegally in rural parts of the southern U. S. (Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.)


adjective
Moonshine  adj.  
1.
Moonlight. (R.)
2.
Empty; trivial; idle.
3.
Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor; as, moonshine whisky. (Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.)





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"Moonshine" Quotes from Famous Books



... awoke he thought at first that it was morning, the room was so light. But presently he saw that it was not yellow sunlight but white moonshine ...
— The Magic City • Edith Nesbit
... night I had an extraordinary and ludicrous experience with a lost person, though at the time it seemed only exasperating. I had stepped outside my cabin to drink in the "moonshine" on my superb outlook. Across the valley, as clearly as in daylight. Long's Peak and its neighbors stood out. The little meadow brook shimmered like a silver ribbon. I walked out to Cabin Rock, a thousand feet above the valley, and sat down. Coyotes yip-yipped their salutations to the sailing moon. ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills
... were also new and neat houses, and they thought just as the others did; but at the window opposite the old house there sat a little boy with fresh rosy cheeks and bright beaming eyes: he certainly liked the old house best, and that both in sunshine and moonshine. And when he looked across at the wall where the mortar had fallen out, he could sit and find out there the strangest figures imaginable; exactly as the street had appeared before, with steps, projecting ...
— A Christmas Greeting • Hans Christian Andersen
... subscribed by a clear majority of the congregation. This is amusing. We have already explained that, except as a liberal courtesy, the very idea of a call destined to be inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet between two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. We have all heard of Barmecide banquets, where, out of tureens filled to the brim with—nothing, the fortunate guest was helped to vast messes ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 • Various
... or throwing himself in fury on his bed—and had fallen at last into that profound, uneasy slumber that so often follows on a night of pain, when he was awakened by the third or fourth angry repetition of the concerted signal. There was a thin, bright moonshine; it was bitter cold, windy, and frosty; the town had not yet awakened, but an indefinable stir already preluded the noise and business of the day. The ghouls had come later than usual, and they seemed more than usually eager to be gone. Fettes, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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