Moon
[muːn] or [mun]
Definition
(noun.) any natural satellite of a planet; 'Jupiter has sixteen moons'.
(noun.) the natural satellite of the Earth; 'the average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers'; 'men first stepped on the moon in 1969'.
(noun.) any object resembling a moon; 'he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light'; 'the clock had a moon that showed various phases'.
(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).
(verb.) expose one's buttocks to; 'moon the audience'.
(verb.) be idle in a listless or dreamy way.
Edited by Juanita--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
(n.) The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.
(n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
(v. t.) To expose to the rays of the moon.
(v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
Typist: Sonia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Satellite, secondary planet.
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Definition
n. the secondary planet or satellite which revolves round the earth monthly shining with reflected light: a satellite revolving about any other planet; a month: anything in the shape of a moon or crescent: (fort.) a crescent-shaped outwork.—v.t. to adorn with moons or crescents.—v.i. to wander about or gaze vacantly at anything.—n. Moon′beam a beam of light from the moon.—adj. Moon′-blind dim-sighted purblind.—ns. Moon′calf a monster a deformed creature: a dolt.—n.pl. Moon′-culminā′tions times of culmination of the limb of the moon with certain neighbouring stars formerly used in determining longitude.—adj. Mooned of or like the moon: having the figure of the moon marked upon it.—ns. Moon′er one who moons about; Moon′eye a disease affecting horses' eyes: a name of several American fishes; Moon′face a full round face—a point of beauty in the East.—adj. Moon′faced.—ns. Moon′-fish a name applied to various fishes; Moon′-flower the ox-eye daisy; Moon′-glade the track of moonlight on water.—adj. Moon′ish like the moon: variable: inconstant.—n. Moon′-knife a crescent-shaped knife used by leather-workers in shaving off the fleshy parts of skins.—adj. Moon′less destitute of moonlight.—n. Moon′light the light of the moon—sunlight reflected from the moon's surface.—adj. lighted by the moon: occurring during moonlight.—ns. Moon′lighter one of a band of cowardly ruffians in Ireland who committed agrarian outrages by night about 1880: a moonshiner; Moon′lighting.—adjs. Moon′lit lit or illumined by the moon; Moon′-loved loved by the moon.—ns. Moon′-mad′ness lunacy supposed to be caused by sleeping in full moonlight; Moon′-rak′er a silly person; Moon′-rak′ing the following of crazy fancies; Moon′-sail a small sail sometimes carried above the sky-scraper; Moon′-set the setting of the moon; Moon′shine the shining of the moon: (fig.) show without reality: poached eggs with sauce: a month: (U.S.) smuggled spirits; Moon′shiner a smuggler or illicit distiller of spirits.—adj. Moon′shiny lighted by the moon: visionary unreal.—n. Moon′-stone a variety of feldspar presenting a pearly reflection from within.—adj. Moon′struck affected by the moon lunatic crazed.—n. Moon′wort any fern of the genus Botrychium.—adj. Moon′y relating to or like the moon or a crescent bearing a crescent: round as a shield: like moonlight lighted by the moon: silly: sickly: tipsy.—n. a noodle.—Moonlight flitting a removal of one's furniture &c. during night to prevent it being seized for rent or debt.
Edited by Bonita
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing the moon with the aspect of the heavens remaining normal, prognosticates success in love and business affairs. A weird and uncanny moon, denotes unpropitious lovemaking, domestic infelicities and disappointing enterprises of a business character. The moon in eclipse, denotes that contagion will ravage your community. To see the new moon, denotes an increase in wealth and congenial partners in marriage. For a young woman to dream that she appeals to the moon to know her fate, denotes that she will soon be rewarded with marriage to the one of her choice. If she sees two moons, she will lose her lover by being mercenary. If she sees the moon grow dim, she will let the supreme happiness of her life slip for want of womanly tact. To see a blood red moon, indicates war and strife, and she will see her lover march away in defence of his country.
Edited by Elvis
Unserious Contents or Definition
The only lighting monopoly that never made money.
Typist: Murray
Examples
- She looks; the moon is up. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He dropped the curtains over the broad window and regal moon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The moon is rising, and where she sits there is a little stream of cold pale light, in which her head is seen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He saw me; for the moon had opened a blue field in the sky, and rode in it watery bright: he took his hat off, and waved it round his head. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We had the phenomenon of a full moon located just in the same spot in the heavens at the same hour every night. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The ceremony was in honour of the god of the Moon; and it was to be held at night. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It may be rendered into English thus: May your celestial majesty outlive the sun, eleven moons and a half! Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Beneath the brilliant light of Mars' two glorious moons the whole scene presented itself in vivid distinctness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Probably man began reckoning time by the clock of the full and new moons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The earliest recorded reckoning is by moons and by generations of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is, says Chadband, the ray of rays, the sun of suns, the moon of moons, the star of stars. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Why, it could not even find food alone, and more than twelve moons had passed since Kala had come upon it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Pleasure in our cities has become tied to lobster palaces, adventure to exalted murderers, romance to silly, mooning novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To think that a man should be so silly as to go mooning about like that for a girl's glove! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He was mooning about, I suppose, taking liberties with people's chins; but there he was, somehow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To see him mooning along to that time of life, laying down nothing by the way and picking up nothing by the way, is delightful. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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