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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Lunar :: Lunar (a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month..
Obscuration :: Obscuration (v. t.) The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse..
Lunacy :: Lunacy (n.) Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation..
Moonstruck :: Moonstruck (a.) Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence..
Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
Waniand :: Waniand (n.) The wane of the moon.
Lunitidal :: Lunitidal (a.) Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon.
Moon :: Moon (n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
Moonfish :: Moonfish (n.) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish..
Moonwort :: Moonwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond..
Occulted :: Occulted (a.) Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon..
Monthly :: Monthly (a.) Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of 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..
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..
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..
Conjunction :: Conjunction (n.) The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6..
Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated..
Wane :: Wane (n.) The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
Buat :: Buat (n.) A lantern; also, the moon..
Astrometeorology :: Astrometeorology (n.) The investigation of the relation between the sun, moon, and stars, and the weather..
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