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full moon
1. The moon with its entire disc illuminated.
a1000Boeth. Metr. xxviii. 81 Hwa is on weorulde þæt ne wundriᵹe fulles monan. 1530Palsgr. 223/2 Full moone, plaine lune. 1681Otway Soldier's Fort. iv. i, 'Twas a Full-moon, and such a Moon, Sir! 1812–16J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 597 The full moon rises at sun-set. 1883Ouida Wanda I. 58 The full moon was rising above the Glöckner range.
2. The period at which this occurs (= L. plenilunium).
a1300Cursor M. 17288 + 72 Þese thre thinges a-bod our lord, or he to ded wald goo, Vre leuedy day & friday als and ful moyne als-soo. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 800 Hoc plenilunium, fulmone. 1563W. Fulke Meteors (1640) 61 b, From the new moone, to the full, all humors do encrease and from the full to the new Moone, decrease againe. 1676Wiseman Wounds v. ix. 393 Towards the Full⁓moon, as he was coming home one morning, he felt his Legs faulter. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 34 They [tides] exhibit no sensible rise till the second or third day after the full Moon.
3. attrib.
1780Cowper Progr. Err. 282 The breach, though small at first, soon opening wide, In rushes folly with a full-moon tide. 1797Southey in J. Cottle Remin. (1847) 211 A very brown-looking man of..full-moon cheeks. 1894G. Meredith Lord Ormont I. iii. 91 Howling like full-moon dogs all through their lives.
▸ full moon festival n. = Moon Festival n. at moon n.1 Compounds 2.
1878Fraser's Mag. Aug. 255/2 The foregoing sketches may serve roughly to illustrate some of the best-known of the popular amusements which..at all times, and especially at the great *full-moon festival, draw together vast crowds of this pleasure-seeking, holiday-loving people. 1947Lin Yueh-Hwa Golden Wing vi. 69 On the fifteenth day after the New Year, which is the Full Moon Festival of the Spring, another village gathering, taking in all the villagers, was held in the ancestral hall. 2006Denver Post (Nexis) 25 Jan. f1 They had chicken three times a year—for the Aug. 15 Full Moon Festival, dragon boat races and the New Year. |