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Definition of moon

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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..

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Opalescence :: Opalescence (n.) A reflection of a milky or pearly light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent..

Change :: Change (v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night..

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

Moonstruck :: Moonstruck (a.) Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.

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..

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

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

Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition..

Star :: Star (n.) One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae..

Ingress :: Ingress (n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc..

Horsehead :: Horsehead (n.) The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).

Menispermic :: Menispermic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, moonseed (Menispermum), or other plants of the same family, as the Anamirta Cocculus..

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

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

Selenograph :: Selenograph (n.) A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it..

Moony :: Moony (a.) Of or pertaining to the moon.

Moonglade :: Moonglade (n.) The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water.

Moonling :: Moonling (n.) A simpleton; a lunatic.

Lunitidal :: Lunitidal (a.) Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon.

Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures..