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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



... Miss Priscilla were busied upon household matters wholly feminine, wherefore Small Porges had drawn Bellew to the window, and there they leaned, the small body enfolded by Bellew's long arm, and the two faces turned up to the silvery splendour of the moon. ...
— The Money Moon - A Romance • Jeffery Farnol
... in the old sunken road that ran in front of Eaucort Abbaye. At this point we were not under observation, as a rise in the ground would have protected us even though it had been daylight. The moon was shining brilliantly, and we knew that it would not be anything in the nature of a surprise attack. We got into extended formation and waited for the order to advance. I thought I should go crazy during that short wait. Shells had begun to burst over and around us, and ...
— A Yankee in the Trenches • R. Derby Holmes
... on a stand, I made him take the distance between the sun and moon, four or five times; on every occasion he was wonderfully near the truth. We endeavoured to confine him to one object, merely to ascertain the time of apparent noon; and I think we succeeded in explaining to him how this was to be done. He expressed repeatedly ...
— Account of a Voyage of Discovery - to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island • Captain Basil Hall
... swept out of his mind, as, having doffed his gown and donned his surplice, he came out of the dusk of his vestry and went to the church-door, looking into the broad light which came upon the plain of the church-yard on the cliffs; for the sun had not yet set, and the pale moon was slowly rising through the silvery mist that obscured the distant moors. There was a thick, dense crowd, all still and silent, looking away from the church and the vicar, who awaited the bringing of the dead. They were watching the slow black line winding ...
— Sylvia's Lovers, Vol. I • Elizabeth Gaskell
... poet sung alone, Checked by the chilling frosts of words unkind; And his grieved soul, some thousand years astray, Paled like the moon in most ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various


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