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

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.

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..

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..

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

Jermoonal :: Jermoonal (n.) The Himalayan now partridge.

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..

Moon :: Moon (n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn..

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

Moon :: Moon (n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

Moon :: Moon (v. t.) To expose to the rays of the moon.

Moon :: Moon (v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.

Moon-culminating :: Moon-culminating (a.) Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude..

Moon-eye :: Moon-eye (n.) A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse..

Moon-eye :: Moon-eye (n.) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters..

Moon-eye :: Moon-eye (n.) The cisco.

Moon-eyed :: Moon-eyed (a.) Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.

Moon-faced :: Moon-faced (a.) Having a round, full face..

Moonbeam :: Moonbeam (n.) A ray of light from the moon.

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

Moonblink :: Moonblink (n.) A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia..

Mooncalf :: Mooncalf (n.) A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus..

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

Mooned :: Mooned (imp. & p. p.) of Moo.

Mooned :: Mooned (a.) Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon.

Mooner :: Mooner (n.) One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck..

Moonery :: Moonery (n.) Conduct of one who moons.

Moonet :: Moonet (n.) A little moon.

Moonfish :: Moonfish (n.) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish..

Moonfish :: Moonfish (n.) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish..

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