| 单词 | dark of the moon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdark of the moon dark of the moon n. the time at or near new moon when there is no moonlight; cf. dark moon n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month > periods within or phases of the moon full moonOE new moonOE waningc1000 new of the moona1398 quarter?a1425 plenilune?a1475 neomeniaa1535 lunationc1549 interlune1561 wane1563 neomeny1569 dark of the moon1591 month of apparition1594 dark moon1615 plenilunium1615 moon1709 interlunation1813 quartering1880 1591 J. Pauncefote tr. J. de Caumont Firme Found. Catholike Relig. 41 Here is the Church..wounding (as it were in the dark of the moon) simple and plain meaning folke: but now how blinde is he that erreth in the ful moone? 1642 N. Bernard Whole Proc. Siege Drogheda 20 Wee were assured by all that came from them that in this darke of the Moon, we should feele their utmost. 1801 tr. ‘C. F. Damberger’ Trav. Interior Afr. 122 If a boy is born..in the dark of the moon. 1945 T. Williams Battle of Angels ii. i. 41 In the dark of the moon, beside a broken fence rail in some big rolling meadow. 2007 Griffith Observer (Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles) Sept. 7/2 It [sc. the first crescent moon] is the only uniquely identifiable phase, for it appears just after the dark of the moon. < as lemmas |
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