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Crescent :: Crescent (n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge.

Moonseed :: Moonseed (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.

Phase :: Phase (n.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon..

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..

Rising :: Rising (a.) Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon..

Mooning :: Mooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moo.

Moonshiny :: Moonshiny (a.) Moonlight.

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

Simoon :: Simoon (n.) A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains..

Evection :: Evection () An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1¡ 20'..

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated..

Lunistice :: Lunistice (n.) The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution..

Moon :: Moon (n.) The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.

Moonblind :: Moonblind (a.) Dim-sighted; purblind.

Honeymoon :: Honeymoon (n.) The first month after marriage.

Lunar :: Lunar (a.) Resembling the moon; orbed.

Occulted :: Occulted (a.) Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon..

Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon..

Wane :: Wane (n.) The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.

Lunisolar :: Lunisolar (a.) Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon..

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