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Tide :: Tide (prep.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied

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 (a.) Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs..

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

Lunar :: Lunar (n.) A lunar distance.

Semilunary :: Semilunary (a.) Semilunar.

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

Semilunar :: Semilunar (n.) The semilunar bone.

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

Interlunary :: Interlunary (a.) Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible..

Plenilunary :: Plenilunary (a.) Of or pertaining to the full moon.

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

Semilunate :: Semilunate (a.) Semilunar.

Lunarian :: Lunarian (n.) An inhabitant of the moon.

Subluxation :: Sublunary (n.) Any worldly thing.

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

Lunary :: Lunary (a.) Lunar.

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..

Embolism :: Embolism (n.) Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year..

Sublunary :: Sublunary (a.) Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly..

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