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Octant :: Octant (n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees..

Moonwort :: Moonwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond..

Moonsticken :: Moonsticken (a.) See Moonstruck.

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

Heaven :: Heaven (n.) The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense..

Lookdown :: Lookdown (n.) See Moonfish (b).

Obscuration :: Obscuration (v. t.) The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse..

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..

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..

Evection :: Evection () The libration of the moon.

Lunar :: Lunar (a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month..

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

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

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

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

Luna :: Luna (n.) The moon.

Peragration :: Peragration (n.) The act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution..

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..

Mone :: Mone (n.) The moon.

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