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new moon
[new a. 3 c + moon n.1]
1. The moon when first seen as a slender crescent shortly after its conjunction with the sun.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 242 We cweðað þonne niwne monan æfter menniscum ᵹewunan, ac he is æfre se ylca. c1055Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 309 Swa byð se niwa mona bradra gesewen. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 432 As the new mone, all pale, oppressit with change, Kythis quhilis her cleir face. 1598W. Phillip tr. Linschoten's Voy. (1864) 187 They pray likewise to the New Moone,..and salute her with great Deuotion. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 86 At the appearing of euery new Moone, they goe out to worship it. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 44 They look out at Night for the new Moon. 17..Sir Patrick Spens vi, I saw the new moone..Wi' the auld moone in hir arme. a1742Stukely in J. Smith Panor. Sci. & Art (1815) I. 614 The [eclipsed] sun looked very sharp like a new moon. 1851Meredith Love in the Valley iv, Earth to her is young as the slip of the new moon.
2. The time when the new moon appears; also Astron. the time at which the moon is in conjunction with the sun.
b. The festival celebrated by the ancient Hebrews at the time of the new moon (cf. neomenia).
c1000Saxon Leechd. III. 243 Þis ᵹelimpð seldon & næfre buton on niwum monan. c1200Vices & Virtues 27 Oðer [to think] newe mone betere ðan æld-mone in to newe huse te wænden. 1382Wyclif 1 Esdras viii. 6 In the newe mone of the fifte moneth. 1382― Isa. i. 13 The newe moone, and sabot, and othere festus. c1440Promp. Parv. 360/2 Nwe mone, neomenia. 1535Coverdale 2 Chron. xxxi. 3 The burntofferynges of the Sabbath and of the new-mone and of the feastes. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 27 To thee give place The old new-moons, with all festival days. 1682Riders Brit. Merlin Oct., Sow Wheat and Rie about the New Moon. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Moon, Before the new moon the horns were turned westward. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) II. 522/1 Having completed her course..she disappears; and we say it is new moon. 1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 556/2 A few hours after ‘new moon’, the moon appears a little to the east of the sun as a thin crescent. |