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Halo :: Halo (n.) A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions..

Terminator :: Terminator (n.) The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon.

Moong :: Moong (n.) Same as Mung.

Combust :: Combust (a.) So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun..

Moonfish :: Moonfish (n.) The mola. See Sunfish, 1..

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin..

Plenilune :: Plenilune (n.) The full moon.

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

Nodical :: Nodical (a.) Of or pertaining to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon..

Moonlit :: Moonlit (a.) Illumined by the moon.

Nyctalopia :: Nyctalopia (n.) See Moonblink.

Moonraker :: Moonraker (n.) Same as Moonsail.

Reason :: Reason (v. t.) To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon..

Moony :: Moony (a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.

Synodically :: Synodical (a.) Pertaining to conjunction, especially to the period between two successive conjunctions; extending from one conjunction, as of the moon or a planet with the sun, to the next; as, a synodical month (see Lunar month, under Month); the synodical revolution of the moon or a planet..

Neomenia :: Neomenia (n.) The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.

Apogean :: Apogean (a.) Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee..

Apsis :: Apsis (n.) One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides..

Luniform :: Luniform (a.) Resembling the moon in shape.

Mooncalf :: Mooncalf (n.) A dolt; a stupid fellow.

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