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harvest moon
The moon which is full within a fortnight of the autumnal equinox (22 or 23 Sept.), and which rises for several nights nearly at the same hour, at points successively further north on the eastern horizon.
1706Watts Horæ Lyr., Vict. Poles over Osman 5 Wks. 1813 IX. 275/1 Seventy harvest-moons Fill'd his wide gran'ries with autumnal joy. 1747Ferguson in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 538 All the Phænomena of the Harvest-Moon become very plain by this additional Part. 1803Leyden Scenes Infancy i. 267 The waning harvest-moon shone cold and bright. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. xii, The broad harvest-moon was in the heavens, and filled the air as with a softer and holier day. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. iv. §30. |