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Moon :: Moon (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..

Supralunary :: Supralunar (a.) Alt. of Supralunar.

Lunate :: Lunate (a.) Alt. of Lunate.

Semilunary :: Semilunary (a.) Semilunar.

Lunated :: Lunated (a.) Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross..

Day :: Day (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day

Committee :: Committee (v. t.) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian..

Moonling :: Moonling (n.) A simpleton; a lunatic.

Bethlehem :: Bethlehem (n.) A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.

Semilunate :: Semilunate (a.) Semilunar.

Medialuna :: Medialuna (n.) See Half-moon.

Dial :: Dial (n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical..

Lunar :: Lunar (n.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium..

Novilunar :: Novilunar (a.) Of or pertaining to the new moon.

Lunatic :: Lunatic (a.) Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.

Epoch :: Epoch (n.) An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860..

Translunary :: Translunary (a.) Being or lying beyond the moon; hence, ethereal; -- opposed to sublunary..

Proemptosis :: Proemptosis (n.) The addition of a day to the lunar calendar.

Intermedium :: Intermedium (n.) The bone or cartilage between the radiale and ulnare in the carpus, and between the tibiale and fibulare in the tarsus. It corresponds to the lunar in the carpus, and to a part of the astragalus in the tarsus of man and most mammals..

Luna :: Luna (n.) The moon.

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