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Webster 1913 Edition
Moon
Moon
(moōn)
, Noun.
[OE.
mone
, AS. mōna
; akin to D. maan
, OS. & OHG. māno
, G. mond
, Icel. māni
, Dan. maane
, Sw. måne
, Goth. mēna
, Lith. menů
, L. mensis
month, Gr. μήνη
moon, μήν
month, Skr. mās
moon, month; prob. from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. mā
to measure), from its serving to measure the time. √271. Cf. Mete
to measure, Menses
, Monday
, Month
.] 1.
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
. The crescent
moon
, the diadem of night. Cowper.
2.
A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system;
as, the
. moons
of Jupiter or Saturn3.
The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month;
as, it’s been many
. moons
since I last visited WashingtonShak.
4.
(Fort.)
A crescentlike outwork. See
Half-moon
. Moon blindness
. (a)
(Far.)
A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks
. (b)
(Med.)
Hemeralopia.
– Moon dial
, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight.
– Moon face
, a round face like a full moon.
– Moon madness
, lunacy.
[Poetic]
– Moon month
, a lunar month.
– Moon trefoil
(Bot.)
, a shrubby species of medic (
– Medicago arborea
). See Medic
. Moon year
, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.
– blue moon
, see
– blue moon
in the vocabulary. many moons
, a long time.
Moon
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Mooned
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mooning
.] 1.
To expose to the rays of the moon.
If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and
mooned
. Holland.
Moon
,Verb.
I.
To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
Elsley was
mooning
down the river by himself. C. Kingsley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Moon
MOON
,Noun.
1.
The heavenly orb which revolves round the earth; a secondary planet or satellite of the earth, whose borrowed light is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel the darkness of night. Its mean distance from the earth is 60 1/2 semidiameters of the earth, or 240,000 miles. Its revolution round the earth in 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, constitutes the lunar month.2.
A month. This is the sense in which rude nations use the name of the moon; as seven moons.Half-moon, in fortification, a figure resembling a crescent.