Moonshine
['muːnʃaɪn] or ['munʃaɪn]
Definition
(noun.) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash.
(verb.) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine.
Inputed by Gavin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The light of the moon.
(n.) Hence, show without substance or reality.
(n.) A month.
(n.) A preparation of eggs for food.
(a.) Moonlight.
Typist: Ruth
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Moonlight.[2]. Nonsense, trash, stuff, twaddle, fudge, flummery, balderdash.
Typist: Robbie
Examples
- She could look at it, she said, in the night, especially in the moonshine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Occasionally he recognizes the wilful character of politics: then he shakes his head, climbs into an ivory tower and deplores the moonshine, the religious manias and the passions of the mob. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here again--behold the branchless tree, the unstabled Rosinante; the film of cloud, the flicker of moonshine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I will only act Moonshine, and peep harmless into the bed where faith and beauty and innocence lie dreaming. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And you, you old yellow poco moonshine! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And that is-- That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Madness and moonshine,' is then the compressed verdict of the Genius. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog, said Holmes, laughing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Inputed by Ferdinand