Definition of moon

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

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Shine :: Shine (v. i.) To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night..
Mooned :: Mooned (imp. & p. p.) of Moo.
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge.
Evection :: Evection () The libration of the moon.
Horning :: Horning (n.) Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent..
Luna :: Luna (n.) The moon.
Circumjovial :: Circumjovial (n.) One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter.
Moonling :: Moonling (n.) A simpleton; a lunatic.
Change :: Change (v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night..
Moonseed :: Moonseed (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
Selenograph :: Selenograph (n.) A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it..
Monthly :: Monthly (adv.) As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic.
Obscuration :: Obscuration (v. t.) The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse..
Almanac :: Almanac (n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc..
Adularia :: Adularia (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone..
Rising :: Rising (a.) Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon..
Metemptosis :: Metemptosis (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years..
Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna..
Lunisolar :: Lunisolar (a.) Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon..
Ingress :: Ingress (n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc..
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