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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..

Limb :: Limb (n.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon..

Monthly :: Monthly (adv.) Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly..

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

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

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..

Change :: Change (v. t.) A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon..

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

Ravelin :: Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon..

Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon..

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

Full-orbed :: Full-orbed (a.) Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.

Lunistice :: Lunistice (n.) The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution..

Sabianism :: Sabianism (n.) The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry..

Simoon :: Simoon (n.) A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains..

Day :: Day (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day

Occulted :: Occulted (a.) Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon..

Moonseed :: Moonseed (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.

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

Moonsail :: Moonsail (n.) A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail..

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