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moonn.1

Brit. /muːn/, U.S. /mun/
Forms: Old English–Middle English mona, Old English–1600s mone, early Middle English monæ, Middle English mome (transmission error), Middle English mon, Middle English money (transmission error), Middle English mony (transmission error), Middle English moyn, Middle English moyne, Middle English–1500s mowne, Middle English–1700s (1800s archaic) moone, Middle English– moon, 1500s moune; English regional 1700s–1800s muin (chiefly northern), 1800s mooin (northern), 1800s– meean (northern), 1800s– meun (northern), 1800s– meunn (northern), 1800s– meyun (northern), 1800s– miun (northern), 1800s– mune (Devon), 1800s– myun (northern); Scottish pre-1700 mone, pre-1700 monne, pre-1700 moune, pre-1700 movne, pre-1700 mowne, pre-1700 moyn, pre-1700 moyne, pre-1700 mvne, pre-1700 mwne, pre-1700 1700s (1800s archaic) moone, pre-1700 1700s– moon, pre-1700 1700s– mune, 1700s– muin, 1800s meun (Orkney), 1800s mon (Shetland), 1800s– meen (north-eastern), 1800s– min, 1800s– müne, 1900s– mön (Shetland).
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian mōna , Middle Dutch māne , maen , mayn , mōne (Dutch maan ), Old Saxon māno (Middle Low German mān , māne , mōne , mānt ), Old High German māno (Middle High German māne , mān , mōne , mōn , mānde , mānt , mōnde , mōnt , German Mond ), Old Icelandic máni , Old Swedish mane (Swedish måne ), Danish måne , Gothic mena , Crimean Gothic mine < a variant of the Germanic base of month n.1 (with loss of final consonant and remodelling as n-stem).Middle High German and Middle Low German forms in -d and -t show excrescent final dental. Alongside the usual Old English weak masculine mōna , a rare weak feminine variant mōne is occasionally attested, often in collocation with the rare masculine sunna sun and translating classical Latin lūna ; compare similar use of rare feminine forms in Middle High German, and see further note at sense 1d. With use with ordinal numeral at sense 2b, compare classical Latin luna tertia, quarta, etc.
I. A celestial object.
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a. With the. The natural satellite of the earth; a secondary planet which orbits around the earth, visible esp. at night by the light of the sun which it reflects.The moon has a diameter of approx. 2160 miles (3476 km), orbits the earth at an average distance of approx. 238,900 miles (384,400 km), and has no atmosphere; its gravitational attraction is the main cause of the tides on earth. The period in which the moon completes its series of phases is called a (lunar) month, and gave rise to the concept of a month as a measure of time: see month n.1 The same side of the moon is always presented to the earth, and the pattern of light and dark patches visible on its surface has led to comparison of its disc to a face (see sense 1e and man in the moon n.).A Russian unmanned spacecraft, Luna 2, landed on the moon on 13 September 1959. The first manned mission, the United States's Apollo 11, landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, the first of six American manned landings between 1969–73.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [noun]
moonOE
Diana1398
Hecatec1420
lady of the night1480
luna?1499
Lucina?1504
Phoebe1600
queen of the night?1610
mother of months1613
noctiluca1623
Cynthia1645
Oliver?1747
star-queen1818
Paddy's lantern1834
parish lantern1847
night-sun1855
OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) i. 78 Se mona & ealle steorran underfoð leoht of ðære micclan sunnan.
lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) xxi. 49 Sio sunne bringð leohte dagas, & se mona liht on niht.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8912 Þa a þan auen-time, þe mone gon to scine.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 145 Ðe mones ligt is moneð met.
a1400 Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 985/59* (MED) He wald for vus marterd bee, þat time when þe moyn wor ful.
1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. cvj Take hony at the chaungyng of the moon.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 20 Looke that the winde be Westerly, and the Moone in the wane.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 28 The siluer Moone . View more context for this quotation
1649 T. Fuller Just Mans Funeral 13 The moon would have shined without any spots.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 253 The waters of the sea, running from all parts, to attend the motions of the moon, produce the flowing of the tide.
1807 S. T. Coleridge To Wordsworth 101 A tranquil sea, Outspread and bright, yet swelling to the moon.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxviii. 45 The moon is hid; the night is still. View more context for this quotation
1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man i. 9 The moon seems to be a body which has had time to complete the whole history of geological change, and to become a dry, dead, and withered world.
1901 H. G. Wells First Men in Moon xx. 180 I had reckoned that..the tangential ‘fly off’ of the moon's spin would be at least twenty-eight times less than the earth's.
1961 J. F. Kennedy Special Message 25 May in Public Papers Pres. U.S., 1961 ccv. 404/1 I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
1994 Guardian 14 Sept. ii. 8/4 This analysis supported the view that the moon originated from a glancing collision between the earth and another protoplanet 4,500 million years ago.
b. The moon considered with reference to its changes and phases, the influence it exerts, etc. See also sense 2a.Its recurring phases have caused the moon to be taken as the type of something changeable or fickle. The moon has also popularly been supposed to influence the health of body and mind, and to cause insanity (cf. lunacy n.).
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OE Lapidary 14 Seleten hatte sum stan þæs gecyndu sind þæt he mid wexsendan monan wexseð & mid waniendan wanað.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 129 Þe Mone wuneð & waxeð. & nis neauer studefest. & bitachneð forþiworldliche þinges þet beoð as þemone eauer inchange.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xxvii. 12 An holy man in wisdam woneþ as þe sunne; for þe fool as þe mone is chaungid.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. x. 108 Lunatik lollers and leperes a-boute, And mad as þe mone sitt, more oþer lasse.
c1450 (c1385) G. Chaucer Complaint of Mars 235 He that hath with love to done Hath ofter wo then changed ys the mone.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 9491 (MED) Venus þe lymes shapeth she..The mone þe nailes and þe heer.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xviii. 83 The minde of men chaungeth as the mone.
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 256v Now is that rege turnd in dotage it is auld of the mone.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 25 Thou art not certaine, For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the Moone . View more context for this quotation
a1668 W. Davenant Law against Lovers in Wks. (1673) 295 That were a sudden change, and would shew More of the Moon in him, than is in a Mad-woman.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 599 Our habits..change with ev'ry moon.
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 138 This periodical increase and decrease of the fever he was inclined to ascribe to the changes of the moon.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top xxi. 179 I know they're stupid and unaccountable, ruled by the moon..but there's a physical goodness about them as sacred as milk.
1990 N. Payne Grenadian Childhood 172 She said the woman does be mad with the moon, so it's better if she stayed where she was in Trinidad.
c. The moon considered (and sometimes personified) with reference to its position above the earth, as an observer or overseer of human affairs.Frequent in Shakespeare.
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OE Cynewulf Crist II 698 Ofer middangeard mona lixeð, gæstlic tungol, swa seo godes circe þurh gesomninga soðes ond ryhtes beorhte bliceð.
a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 286 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 101 Bi heuene, bi erþe, bi sonne, bi mone, maidan Maregrete, i cuiþe þe þi bone.
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 417 He sweren bi ðe rode, Bi ðe sunne & bi ðe mone.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. x. 115 God kepe..the mone fro the wulues. [Cf. Cotgr. s.v. Lune, Garder la lune des loups, and Rabelais i. xi.]
?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. iv. 26 I will couche youe all vp soone where ye shalnot bee spied neither of Sonne nor Mone.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 183 Making as little account of them as the moone doth of the barking of a dog.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. ii. 105 Pray you no more of this, 'tis like the howling of Irish Wolues against the Moone . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 784 While over head the Moon Sits Arbitress. View more context for this quotation
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 174 Then to the dance, and make the sober moon Witness of joys that shun the sight of noon.
1789 E. Hands Death of Amnon v. 36 Ere yet th' approaching day began to dawn, While the full moon reign'd mistress of the night.
1816 H. Downing Mary sig. Miv Oh, friendly moon, canst thou discover With thy mild, but radiant eye, In what spot remains my lover.
1936 Border Mag. Sept. 141 ‘Were ye no feared to come a' that way in the dark?’ ‘No,’ she replied, ‘the min cam' wi' me.’
1996 L. Erdrich Tales of Burning Love 100 All Jack wanted to do was go outside and beg the moon for deathless fucking, for Eleanor, but there was no moon.
d. With feminine personification, sometimes (after classical example) identified with certain goddesses, such as Cynthia, Diana, and Phoebe. In early use also with masculine personification.Since the disappearance of the grammatical genders of Old English, in which mōna was masculine, the feminine pronoun has very commonly been used in referring to the moon, even when no personification is intended (though the neuter pronoun now occurs with increasing frequency), esp. in poetry.The moon has been widely worshipped as a god. Its white or silvery light is often taken as symbolic of coldness or chastity.The early appearance of the feminine pronoun in quot. OE apparently shows the influence of the Latin.
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OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) xv. 255 Sunne bið aþystrod, & se mona hire leoht ne syleð [L. et luna non dabit lumen suum].
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 451 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 312 Ase man may bi þe Mone i-seo þe ȝwyle heo is neowe riȝt.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 37 (MED) Þe mone wiþ hire muchele maht ne leneþ non such lyht anaht..ase hire forhed doþ in day.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xiii. 10 Þe mone shal not shynen in his liȝt.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 721 Benethe alle othre stant the Mone..: Of flodes hihe and ebbes lowe Upon his change it schal be knowe.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 1069 The mone may þerof acroche no myȝte, To spotty ho is, of body to grym.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 146 It gyfys more light..Then any son..Or mone, when he of son has ton his light.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) iii. 783 And the mone all rede wes sene Blwdlyk as it all blud had bene.
1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. K And eke the Moone her hastie steedes did stay.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 422 Nor doth the Moon no nourishment exhale From her moist Continent to higher Orbes. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 38 And, when descending he [sc. the sun] resigns the skies, Why takes the gentler moon her turn to rise? View more context for this quotation
1816 J. Keats Epist. Brother George 59 The coy moon, when in the waviness Of whitest clouds she does her beauty dress.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Love & Duty in Poems (new ed.) II. 84 The Sun will run his orbit, and the Moon Her circle.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 10/1 The moon in her monthly journey often eclipses (or occults) stars that happen to lie in her track.
1989 P. Genega Striking Water 50 When the moon fails her purpose the waters can turn treacherous. Shoals and rocks. Crazy rip tides.
e. In allusions to the man in the moon (see man in the moon n.).
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a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 70 Þis ilke mon vpon heh..wher he were y þe mone boren ant yfed.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) i. 1024 Thow hast a ful gret care Lest that the cherl may falle out of the moone.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 155 A man which stale sumtyme a birthan of thornis was sett in to the moone, there forto abide for euere.
1597 J. Lyly (title) The Woman in the Moone.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 213 Ro. You tooke the moone at ful, but now shee's changed? King. Yet still she is the Moone, and I the Man. View more context for this quotation
1937 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Mune n. 1 [Kirkcudbright] A servant girl (from Ayrshire) when discovered sewing on a button on Sunday, said ‘I'll be gettin' ma face in the mune.’
f. The moon regarded as typifying a place or thing that it is impossible to reach, influence, or attain. See also Phrases 3.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [noun] > condition of being unattainable > that which is > typically
moon?1499
?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Biijv Thou mayste not studye or muse on the mone.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 15 Their bullets doo worke as much effect against the Moone, as against the Enemie that they shoote at.
a1632 J. Webster & W. Rowley Cure for Cuckold (1661) v. i. sig. H2 Use your pleasure, A man may make a garment for the Moon, Rather then fit your Constancy.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xxi. 433 To think of forcing any thing from them, is to dispute with the Moon.
1777 J. Priestley Matter & Spirit (1782) I. Pref. 7 My mind is no more in my body, than it is in the moon.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) XI. 86 If I had been at any time capable of doing what these gentlemen expected, I should now I believe have been in the Moon.
1975 P. Larkin Let. 9 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 521 The notion of expressing sentiments in short lines having similar sounds at their ends seems as remote as mangoes on the moon.
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a. The moon as visible during any one lunar month, sometimes imagined as newly formed and distinct from the moon visible in the previous month, with its age being the number of days that have elapsed since new moon. Also: the moon as visible at a certain time or place, or as presenting a particular appearance. the old moon in the new moon's arms (also lap): the appearance of the moon during the first quarter, in which the dark portion is made faintly luminous by earthshine.See also new moon n., full moon n., half moon n., harvest moon n.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [noun] > of a month
moonOE
OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) iv. §50. 38 Se winterlica mona gæð norðor, þonne seo sunne gange on sumera.
OE Prognostics (Tiber.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1912) 129 43 On anre nihte ealdne monan far þu to cinge.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1110 On þære fiftan nihte on Maies monðe, ætywde se mona on æfen beorhte scinende, & syððan litlan & litlan his leoht wanode.
?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Þa þestrede þe dæi ouer al landes, & uuard þe sunne suilc als it uuare threniht ald mone.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 27 (MED) Ic am ofdrad..ðat ich habbe al forloren min ȝeswink on ȝeu, ðe nemeð ȝeme of daȝas..oðer newe mone betere ðan æld-mone, in to newe huse te wænden, oðer wif ham to leden.
c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 403 But of his craft to rekene wel his tydes..His herberwe and his moone..Ther nas noon swich.
1430 Astron. Cal. in E. M. Thompson et al. Facsimiles Anc. MSS (1913) 2nd Ser. I. Pl. 72b (MED) I lokyd in my kalender for þe age of þe moyne.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 52 And as the new mone all pale [etc.].
1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 1v/2 The tyme betweene the olde moone and the new.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 150 And thirtie dozen Moones with borrowed sheene About the world haue times twelue thirties beene. View more context for this quotation
1661 J. Evelyn Tyrannus 13 When the State it self was as seldome above the Age of a Moon without a new face.
1765 Sir Patrick Spence in T. Percy Reliques Anc. Eng. Poetry I. 73 I saw the new moone..Wi' the auld moone in hir arme.
1802 S. T. Coleridge in Morning Post 4 Oct. 2/4 Lo! the New Moon, winter-bright!.. I see the Old Moon in her lap, fortelling The coming on of rain and squally blast.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 253/1 If the paschal moon fall on a Sunday, the next Sunday is Easter Sunday.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 17 The moon was divine as it bathed everything with its silver lustre, as only Australian moons can do.
1924 Scots Mag. Apr. 35 As he went out early in the morning, the young moon was in the sky.
1936 C. Sandburg People, Yes 123 The moon was a waxing moon and not a waning moon when I was born.
1987 Cape Cod Life Apr.–May 76/2 In between, at the quarter moons, are the more moderate neap tides.
†b. With ordinal numeral: a particular day after a new moon. Obsolete.
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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
OE Prognostics (Tiber.) in Anglia (1944) 67 79 Luna prima: omnibus rebus agendis utilis est... Luna II... Luna III..[etc.] : mona se forma on eallum þingum dondum nytlic ys... Mona se oðer... Mona se ðridda..[etc.].
1709 Rule for finding Easter 8 By fixing Easter-Day upon the Lord's-Day following the 14th Moon.
†3. An appearance or phenomenon in the sky resembling the moon. Cf. mock moon n. Obsolete.
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the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > mock-moon
moonlOE
night-sun1563
mock moon1645
paraselene1651
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1106 Se Þunres dæg toforan Eastran, wæron gesewen twegen monan on þære heofonan toforan þam dæge oðer be eastan, & se oðer be westan begen fulle.
a1350 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1911) 127 40 Ȝyf þou sist two mone, in pouste þou shalt waxe sone.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 115 Full weill I wist to me wald never cum thrift Quhill that twa mvnis wer sene vp in the lift.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 183 They say fiue Moones were seene to night: Foure fixed, and the fift did whirle about The other foure, in wondrous motion.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 152 A wat'ry light..that seem'd Another moon new risen, or meteor fall'n From heav'n to earth.
4. A natural satellite of a planet other than the earth.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > secondary planet, satellite > [noun]
under-orb1605
satellite1645
lunar1655
satelles1660
secondary planet1664
moon1665
lunula1676
secondary1734
exomoon2008
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 72 If these two Planets have Moons wheeling about them.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 149 And other Suns..With thir attendant Moons . View more context for this quotation
1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xvi. 230 Inform them that Saturn has five Moons of the same kind attending him.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 634 The moons of Jove. View more context for this quotation
1838 J. P. Nichol Phenomena & Order Solar Syst. 139 Jupiter has four moons, each larger than ours.
1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 67 Nor can the well-timed courses Of earths and moons Ring to the stroke of blind unthinking forces Their jarless tunes.
1959 A. Koestler Sleepwalkers iv. viii. 368 To demonstrate the Jupiter moons in his spy-glass.
1986 Sci. Amer. Nov. 40/3 During the close flyby of Miranda, one of the moons of Uranus.
II. Extended uses.
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a. A representation of the moon, usually as either circular like the full moon, or crescent-shaped. Also: a moon-shaped ornament, vessel, or other object; esp. (a) a globe-shaped gaslight (now historical); (b) U.S. colloquial, a large circular biscuit.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [noun] > ornamentation or decoration > an ornament > specific
moonc1385
crescent1399
Christmas1706
curly-wurlya1772
cake decoration?1847
stalactite1851
panoply1890
stalactite-work1902
sunburst1921
dabbity1923
the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > circularity > a circle > circle representing sun or moon
moonc1385
sun wheel1773
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > gaslight or lamp > parts of > shade for
smoke-bell1875
moon1883
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2077 This goddesse..vndernethe hir feet she hadde a moone; Wexynge it was and sholde wanye soone.
1432 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 26 (MED) A hole vestement of blu veluet with sterres & mones of golde.
1520–1 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 305 Too corporax casis..the one wth a moone, & the other of cloth of tusshew blake of the owt side.
1594 G. Peele Battell of Alcazar i. sig. A3v Our Moores haue seen the siluer moons to wane, In banners brauely spreading ouer the plaine.
1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie v. xix. 326 Your arguments are like your invincible Armado's, which in their first appearance make a mighty Moone, but are burnt and confounded in the end.
1739 T. Gray Let. 16 Nov. in Corr. (1971) I. 128 Play at Ombre and Taroc, a game with 72 cards all painted with suns, and moons, and devils and monks.
1773 Caledonian Mercury 27 Feb. 1/3 An Elegant Post Chaise..best plate glasses, spring curtains, mahogony [sic] blinds, a large moon, covered trunks, [etc.].
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 13 The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 148 And pure quintessences of precious oils In hollow'd moons of gems.
1874 C. White Policy Players 3 Get me a buttered moon and a pickle.
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi lii. 513 I spent my last 10 cts for 2 moons (large round sea-biscuit) & cheese.
1883 Birmingham Daily Post 11 Oct. 3/3 (advt.) Tumblers and Gas Moons.
1976 K. Stoddert Gilbert et al. Treasures of Tutankhamun 147 The moon and crescent are made of electron, a mixture of silver and gold and therefore lighter in color than..the materials normally used in representations of the sun.
1996 T. N. Murari Steps from Paradise 39 Our thalis were silver moons with our initials on the sides.
b. A moon-shaped mark or area; spec. (a) a small area of greater translucency observable by transmitted light in some early porcelains such as Chelsea; (b) a semicircular area of white at the base of a fingernail.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [noun] > other mark(s)
garland1578
moon1855
flammulation1860
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > small translucent area
moon1909
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 57 Breast. The best spangled and clearest from tipping with white at the end of the moon.
1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 535/2 An artificial fly..adorned with two moons from a peacock's tail.
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 586/2 Chelsea [porcelain]..may be distinguished by..greasy-looking discs known as ‘moons’ in the paste.
1935 Amer. Speech 10 159/1 Moons, crescent-shaped nicks which agates [sc. marbles] receive from hard hits. The belief was that soaking an agate in vinegar would take out the moons.
1948 W. B. Honey Old Eng. Porcelain (new ed.) ii. 53 The exceptionally beautiful porcelain of the red-anchor period has a very soft paste of fine grain, often showing by transmitted light the round spots of higher translucency known to collectors as ‘moons’.
1990 ‘A. Cross’ Players come Again (1992) iii. 97 I haven't heard anyone mention moons on fingernails since I was very young, and my mother taught me to be proud of my ten moons.
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a. The period from one new moon to the next; a lunar month; (gen.) a month. Frequently in idiomatic phrases denoting a very long period of time, as many moons ago, for many a moon, etc.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 41 Men in þe Est londes hilde Ester day þe fourtenþe day of þe mone of the firste monþe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 9152 Hit lasted vj. mones [a1400 Vesp. monet] & iij ȝere.
a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 52 The .ix. day in that ilk mone.
a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 248 God made Adam the fyrst day of þe moone, And the secunde day Eve good dedis to doon.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiii Terre..neuer doth apere tyll the moneth of Iune, and specially whan ther is great weyt in that mone.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1064 At Mid Aprille, the mone when myrthes begyn.
1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 323 Newar day quhilk was..the first day of the moone.
1619 J. Dyke Caveat for Archippus 20 Who may not soone be sufficient to reade..the Church-seruice, and once in a Moone to bestow a mornings blessing vpon his people?
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) ii. 33 The last assault, that was given on the thirteenth day of the Moon.
1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 36 When hoary Thames..Was three long Moons in icy Fetters bound.
1774 W. H. Roberts Poems 14 Thro many a moon, Helpless and weak, he wails his bitter lot.
1797 Edinb. Mag. May 341/2 What shall I do for thee, Tewenissa? There have been already many moons, since you knew my heart; for many moons, as a man, you have been my friend.
1816 ‘P. Pindar’ Wks. I. 397 I have not seen them, Tom, for many moons!
1823 C. Lamb Diss. Roast Pig in Elia 282 A young and tender suckling—under a moon old.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 675/1 The 14th of the paschal moon.
1901 W. E. Henley Hawthorn & Lavender 40 This is the moon of roses, The lovely and flowerful time.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxv. 284 Though she was not to succeed fully for many a moon, she was really accomplishing wonders.
1977 Rolling Stone 7 Apr. 8/2 By far the best political-satire cartoon I've seen in many a moon!
1990 Times 15 Aug. 23/1 For many moons, pay settlements have run comfortably below the average rise in earnings.
†b. = honeymoon n. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time after marriage > [noun] > honeymoon
honeymoon1546
honey montha1633
moon1709
treacle-moon1815
1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 27 Though it survives not the Hymenial Moon.
1814 Ld. Byron Let. 6 Nov. (1975) IV. 230 We are to marry quietly—& to set off by ourselves to Halnaby for the Moon.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. xvii. 345 Where may these lunatics have gone to spend the Moon?
c. slang. A month's imprisonment. (Used in singular after a numeral.)
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > sentence or term of > specific term of (month(s))
stretch1821
moon1830
sices1844
sixer1849
drag1851
carpet1917
carpet-bag1938
pontoon1948
1830 W. T. Moncrieff Heart of London ii. i. (Farmer) They've lumbered him for a few moons, that's all.
1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 259 So Scuddy's life went on, with occasional misfortunes in the way of a moon, or another drag.
1928 E. Wallace Gunner vi. 50 Gunner's got three moon for bein' a suspected.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid iv. 39 I was doing nine moon for screwing.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xviii. 167 I got a twelve moon.
7. poetic. = moonlight n. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > moonlight
moonlightc1300
moona1393
moonshinec1425
night-shine1648
moonglow1860
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 1418 (MED) Piramus cam after sone Unto the welle, and be the Mone He fond hire wimpel blodi there.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 812 In a cave with dredful fot she sterte, For by the mone she say it wel withalle.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 440 To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon Sidonian Virgins paid their Vows. View more context for this quotation
1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott (rev. ed.) i, in Poems (new ed.) I. 79 And by the moon the reaper weary, Piling sheaves in uplands airy.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xxxvi. 52 White in the moon the long road lies.
1974 D. Niatum Ascending Red Cedar Moon 73 Harvesting strawberries in the field Of white moon, we rise to run the orchard's Long, wing-opened memories.
†8. poetic. The period of time in any one night during which the moon is visible. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month
monthOE
lunation1398
moon1487
month of consecution in Astr1561
lunar month1594
lunary month1602
periodical month1603
month of progression1615
synodic month1669
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 617 And als soyn as the moyn wes past, Hym thoucht weill that he saw a fyre.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Eleänore in Poems (new ed.) 31 The..odorous wind, Breathes low between the sunset and the moon.
†9. With the.
a. Alchemy. Silver. Obsolete.Quot. a1393 shows an earlier association of silver with the moon; cf. also Mars n.1 2b, Saturn n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > silver > [noun]
silverc825
moona1500
Ag1814
Tree of Diana1849
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2469 (MED) The mone of Selver hath his part, And Iren that stant upon Mart; The Led after Satorne groweth.]
a1500 in D. W. Singer Catal. Lat. & Vernacular Alchemical MSS (1928) I. 304 (MED) Tak j quarter oz of the sone and di. of the mone purgyd, And mak of both thes sotyl powder lymal.
a1550 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) 2951 (MED) For the white werke make fortunate ye moone.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. i. sig. D The great medicine! Of which one part proiected on a hundred Of..Venus, or the Moone, Shall turne it, to as many of the Sunne. View more context for this quotation
1651 J. French Art Distillation vi. 197 It will resolve the bodies of the Sunne, and Moone.
b. Heraldry. Argent. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > metal > silver or white
silver1478
argent1562
moon1572
pearl1572
seraphim1586
luna1709
crystal1830
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 119v His fielde is Saturne, an hande dextre in fesse, of the moone.
10. In a clock or watch exhibiting the moon's phases: the disc, plate, or aperture representing the moon.
ΚΠ
1546–7 Burgh Rec. Stirling in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 45 Ane orlege and mone with all necessaris tharof, kepand just cours fra xij houris to xij houris.
1628 Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) I. 366 For..vpputting of the horolog brodis, mones, bunkis and roweris.
1756 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained §409. 263 The Elliptical or Tide Plate, with the Moon fixt to it, is upon the Axis of the Wheel.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 493 In the plate that carries the moon, there is a round hole,..through which the phase or appearance of the moon is seen on the sun's plate.
1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 115 Later clocks have two full moons, displayed one after the other, on a larger disc turned in 59 days in the break arch.
1999 Futurist Oct. 46 (caption) The inner natural rings include the sun and the moon, while the outer calendar rings mark years and centuries... Moon Ring: 8 Phases.
11. A person or thing likened to the moon; chiefly in extended metaphors drawing a contrast with the sun and stars (sometimes unfavourably, with connotation of lesser splendour or reflected glory).
ΚΠ
c1586 M. Roydon Elegie Sir P. Sidney in Spenser's Wks. (Globe) 569/2 Tis likely they acquainted soone; He was a Sun, and she a Moone.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 228 My Loue (her Mistres) is a gracious Moone, Shee (an attending Starre) scarce seene a light. View more context for this quotation
1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling (1672) v. 70 The moon of the world doth interpose and hide from him the sight and beams of the Sun of Righteousness.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 253 Johnson: Modern writers are the moons of literature, they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
1860 W. W. Reade Liberty Hall, Oxon. I. ix. 158 Though very pretty she was only a moon with the sun unset.
1993 T. Yorke You (song) in Radiohead Pablo Honey (record sleeve notes) You are the sun the moon and stars..and I could never run away from you.
†12. A fit of frenzy. Cf. lune n.2 Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > fit of madness
widden-dreamOE
resea1300
ragec1330
lunacy1541
raving1549
fit1594
moon1607
ravening1607
lunesa1616
rapturea1616
widdrim1644
raptus1740
brain storm1890
1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. ii. sig. E2 I know 'twas but some peeuish Moone in him.
1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 94 A new Moon did take these men, I did begin to finde a different greeting.
†13. = moon-eye n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of eyes
walleye1523
lunacy1600
moon-eye1607
eyes of wall1611
dragon1639
moon blindnessc1720
moonc1721
glass eye1831
pink-eye1855
c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses xiv. 213 Other Infirmities deem'd hereditary..such as Moons and Defluxions in the Eyes.
14. slang. In singular and plural. The buttocks. Also: an act of exposing one's buttocks, esp. as a gesture intended to shock or insult.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun]
flitcha700
arse-endseOE
culec1220
buttockc1300
tail1303
toutec1305
nagea1325
fundamentc1325
tail-end1377
brawna1382
buma1387
bewschers?a1400
crouponc1400
rumplec1430
lendc1440
nachec1440
luddocka1475
rearwarda1475
croupc1475
rumpc1475
dock1508
hurdies1535
bunc1538
sitting place1545
bottom?c1550
prat1567
nates1581
backside1593
crupper1594
posteriorums1596
catastrophe1600
podex1601
posterior1605
seat1607
poop1611
stern1631
cheek1639
breeka1642
doup1653
bumkin1658
bumfiddle1661
assa1672
butt1675
quarter1678
foundation1681
toby1681
bung1691
rear1716
fud1722
moon1756
derrière1774
rass1790
stern-post1810
sit-down1812
hinderland1817
hinderling1817
nancy1819
ultimatum1823
behinda1830
duff?1837
botty1842
rear end1851
latter end1852
hinder?1857
sit1862
sit-me-down1866
stern-works1879
tuchus1886
jacksy-pardy1891
sit-upon1910
can1913
truck-end1913
sitzfleisch1916
B.T.M.1919
fanny1919
bot1922
heinie1922
beam1929
yas yas1929
keister1931
batty1935
bim1935
arse-end1937
twat1937
okole1938
bahookie1939
bohunkus1941
quoit1941
patoot1942
rusty-dusty1942
dinger1943
jacksie1943
zatch1950
ding1957
booty1959
patootie1959
buns1960
wazoo1961
tush1962
1756 Life & Mem. E. T. Bates iii. 31 But his Moon shall never be covered by me or Buck..'till they put down the Ready—and no Brummagums.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. v. [Lotus Eaters] 80 Or their skirt behind, placket unhooked. Glimpses of the moon.
1938 S. Beckett Murphy 220 Placing her hands upon her moons, plump and plain.
1990 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 129/3 Twice he even took his clothes off at people—you know, pulled down his pants... Showed them his moon.
1991 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 17 Nov. 68/3 [The] ice hockey team has been fined $2500 after a picture of a team ‘moon’ appeared in the club magazine.
15. U.S. colloquial. Illicitly distilled liquor; = moonshine n. 4.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > illicit spirits
moonshine1782
moonlight1809
Jack1816
sly grog (seller, etc.)1829
busthead1851
hooch1897
jackass1921
moon1921
samogon1928
shine1933
shinny1934
Hokonui1947
1921 Capt. Billy’s Whiz Bang May 48 I took the pills to the lagoon and fed them to the ducks, then bought a quart of fresh-made ‘moon’ that cost me seven bucks.
1928 Collier's 29 Dec. 8/3 The art of producing sugar ‘moon’ and aging it in charred casks.
1950 Sat. Evening Post 27 May 20/1 I would buy a couple of pints of moon.
1975 R. Kroetsch Badlands 184 Give these gentlemen some of that moon.

Phrases

P1.
a. under the moon (also †anunder moon): in the sublunary sphere, on earth. above (also beyond) the moon: in the superlunary sphere, in heaven; beyond human knowledge. †below the moon: earthly, mundane (obsolete). Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > space > [adverb] > beyond or above moon
above (also beyond) the moonc1300
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [adverb] > on earth
beneatha1300
below the moonc1300
under the moon (also anunder moon)c1300
below?1520
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > excessively [phrase] > excessively or immoderately
att hofelæsc1175
with unskillc1220
above (also beyond) the moonc1300
out of score1303
beyond (also above, over, without) measurea1375
out of (all) measurea1375
beyond measure1526
above (also beyond) the nock1530
out of (also without) all cry1565
out of all hoa1592
over the top1935
c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 53 (MED) Þeiȝ alle þe men nouȝ under mone To demen weren sete on benche.
c1390 G. Chaucer Physician's Tale 23 Ech thyng in my cure is Vnder the moone that may wane and waxe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 15610 (MED) Of his soru mai naman tell þat liues vnder þe mone.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 1092 His lyf were loste an-vnder mone.
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 2589 Mary, þi Sone abouyn þe mone As make Mankynd trewe and sad, In grace for to gon.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aiiii All is without measure and fer beyonde the mone.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 118 All simples that haue vertue vnder the Moone . View more context for this quotation
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 135 His Thinkings are below the Moone, not worth His serious considering. View more context for this quotation
1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. xii Far abuve the mune, We watching beings do convene.
1792 R. Bage Man as he Is III. lxii. 100 If there is a fitter place under the moon than Paris—all Paris is mistaken.
1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. xii. 165 The most finished singer, under the moon.
1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 180 Happy the sage, whose lofty mood Doth with far-searching ken intrude Into the vast infinitude Of things beyond the moon.
a1973 J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarillion (1977) xi. 101 But soon the Sun..mounted the heaven again. lest night be over-long and evil walk under the Moon.
†b. to praise (also boast, etc.) above the moon: to praise (boast, etc.) extravagantly. to go beyond the moon: to go to extravagant lengths. Obsolete.to cast beyond the moon: see cast v. 41.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase]
to go beyond the moon?c1430
to cast beyond the moon1559
to lay on load?1562
to lay it on with a trowela1616
all (his) geese are swans1621
to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667
to lay it on thick1740
to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778
to come it1796
to make a thing about (also of)1813
to draw with the long-bow1823
to pitch it strong1823
to overegg the pudding1845
to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865
to god it1870
to strong it1964
to stretch it (or things)1965
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 192 Trewe seruyce of god is lettid & þis veyn knackynge..is preised abouen þe mone.
a1533 J. Frith Against Rastel (?1535–6) sig. Biiv Rastell thynketh that I stonde well in my owne conceyte and boste my self above the mone.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. L1v You recken to wide, you go beyond the mone, you art to much deceiued.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 301 The Dwelling vpon them, & Exalting them aboue the Moone, is..Tedious.
P2. to believe that the moon is made of green cheese (also cream cheese) and variants: to believe an absurdity. Formerly also †to say that the moon is blue.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > believe an absurdity [phrase]
to believe that the moon is made of green cheese (also cream cheese)1528
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. iv Yf they saye the mone is belewe, We must beleve that it is true.
1529 J. Frith Pistle Christen Reader lxxi. sig. Niv They wold make men beleue..that ye mone is made of grene chese.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Arain (Wee say of such an Idiot) hee thinkes the Moone is made of greene cheese.
1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1684) i. 13 You may as soon perswade some Country Peasants, that the Moon is made of Green-Cheese (as we say) as that 'tis bigger than his Cart-Wheel.
1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote I. iv. i. 217 You may as well persuade me, the Moon is made of a Cream Cheese, as that [etc.].
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. xxv. 438 An English gentleman may believe the world was made by chance, or the moon made of cream cheese, if he pleases.
1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) i. at Moon Tell me the moon is made of green cheese!
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 326 Doited idiot!—that auld clavering sneck-drawer wad gar ye trow the moon is made of green cheese.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 29 ‘He would make one believe the moon's made of green cheese;’ i.e. he would make you believe the greatest improbability.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv. 176 He proved that the moon was made of green cheese.
1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting 213 Dae ye think the army'll huv anything fir me? ah heard Sharon asking... Dae ye think the moon's made oot ay green fuckin knob cheese? ah remark.
P3. to ask (also cry, wish, etc.) for the moon and variants: to demand or wish for the unattainable.to bark against the moon: see bark v.1 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > desire the impossible [phrase]
to ask (also cry, wish, etc.) for the moon1550
1550 N. Udall Answer to Commoners of Devonshire & Cornwall in N. Pocock Troubles connected with Prayer Bk. of 1549 (1884) 178 They will cry to have a piece of the moon.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 86 I babbled for you, as babies for the moon.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House vi. 49 He was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon.
1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel (1861) v. 196 I might as well wish for the moon as hope to get her.
1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement vi. 307 That was not asking much, and yet..he could not help thinking it was really like asking for the moon.
1972 Accountant 5 Oct. 410/1 To hope for equity or justice in any such scheme is to cry for the moon.
1991 Dateline Mag. Jan. 34/1 (advt.) Some of us ask for the moon, but all I want is love and companionship.
P4. colloquial. to be over the moon: to be very happy or delighted. In early use also to jump over the moon.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > be joyful or delighted [verb (intransitive)]
playc1225
delightc1330
to be joyeda1382
to jump over the moon1718
regale1814
1718 C. Molloy Coquet i. 2 Tis he! I know him now: I shall jump over the Moon for Joy!
c1765 in Oxf. Dict. Nursery Rhymes (1951) 205 High diddle, diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Cow jump'd over the Moon.]
1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing 18 I could have jumped over the moon.
1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. viii. 109 Ready to jump over the moon for delight.
1936 M. Kennedy Together & Apart iii. 189 She didn't know she had a brother and she's over the moon.
1944 N. Coward Middle East Diary 116 The Captain..is..absolutely over the moon with pleasure at having this command.
1988 Mother & Baby Apr. 27/1 When I first found out I was pregnant I was over the moon..and my husband was just as excited.
P5. slang. to shoot (also †bolt, †shove) the moon: to abscond by night, ‘to do a moonlight flit’.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > inhabit house > move house > by night to avoid paying rent
to shove the moon1809
to shoot (also bolt, shove) the moon1812
to shoot the moon1836
moonlight1903
1812 ‘M. Delany’ Murphy Delany's Feast 16 She wish'd to gammon her landlord, and likewise bolt the moon.
1823 P. Egan Grose's Dict. Vulgar Tongue Shoving the Moon, moving goods by moonlight to prevent their being seized by the landlord. Cant.
1837 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 123 He having just ‘shot the moon’, I had to follow him to a cockloft in St. Giles's.
1892 I. Zangwill Big Bow Myst. 10 It is well for the landlord to be about his own estate in Bow, where poachers often shoot the moon.
1941 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys i. 19 In a vague sort of way I fancy we were shooting the moon.
1985 R. Whelan Robert Capa v. 52 They would occupy a hotel room for a few weeks, until they had stretched to the limit their excuses for not paying, then ‘shoot the moon’ and move on to new quarters.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive, with the senses ‘of or relating to the moon, existing in or made by the moon or moonlight’. Frequently poetic.
moon base n.
ΚΠ
1932 R. Cummings in Astounding Stories May 249/2 It was for this the hovering Wandl fleet was waiting—holding off from conflict until this Moon base was ready.
1951 J. D. MacDonald Planet of Dreamers i. 7 The South American Coalition has refused to back down on their claim to five thousand miles of their moon base, even though they admit that it is almost a month since the last weak signals were received.
1961 Economist 18 Nov. 676/2 Commercial services..between New York and Moonbase Alpha in one day.
1969 Guardian 15 July 6/6 One of the things we shall be doing in those early lunar flights is to find a good place for a moon base.
1997 New Scientist 21 June 34/2 A tightly sealed room designed to mimic a space station or Moon base.
† moon-blasting n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 49 Those thanks in the womans Churching for her delivery from Sunburning and Moonblasting.
1800 C. Lamb Let. 9 Aug. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 221 Heaven keep the new born Infant from star blasting and moon blasting.
† moon-cloud n. poetic Obsolete
ΚΠ
1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. B All the Glorie of the day was done, Saue here and there some Light moone-clouds in chac'de.
1889 T. C. Irwin Poems, Sketches, & Songs 136 Her..robe's fair fragrant volute's radiant flow, Like moon clouds.
moon-dawn n.
ΚΠ
1882 A. C. Swinburne in Tristram of Lyonesse 320 So brief and unsure, but sweeter Than ever a moondawn smiles, Moves, measured of no tune's metre, The song in the soul of a child.
1920 L. Binyon Secret 67 But lo, a whiteness beyond the hill: the moon-dawn!
2010 A. Lustig Gram. & Dict. Zaiwa I. ix. 295 Sentence (291) illustrates that <toq5> ‘come out, above’ can also specifically refer to sunrise and moon-dawn.
moon-dew n.
ΚΠ
1877 R. W. Buchanan Balder Beautiful iii. i. 70 There came unto his making..The sundew and the moondew.
1927 J. Joyce Simples in Pomes Penyeach 15 A moondew stars her hanging hair.
2004 A. Bell tr. C. Funke Dragon Rider xlvi. 447 ‘Moondew?’ asked Maia. ‘Yes... The dew that on any moonlit night gathers on the blue flowers growing down by the lake.’
moon dust n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [noun] > surface of > dust
moon dust1905
1905 M. J. Cawein Nature-notes & Impressions (1906) Like some lunar landscape..Crystaled with moon-dust.
1959 Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 753/1 Moon dust, meteoric particles on the surface of the moon.
1969 Guardian 30 July 1/7 The first experiments of exposing germ-free mice to moon dust.
moon-folk n.
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1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. 115/1 The moon-folk laugh at the earth-folk for carrying openly the weapons that destroy life.
1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 416 And so the moon-folk live always in catacombs, which to them seem homely.
† moon-gleam n. Obsolete
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1832 T. Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1839) III. 148 A world of blackest gloom, with sun-gleams, and pale tearful moon-gleams.
1834 Sporting Mag. July 205 What heart can wish for more, Than the breeze abeam, the merry moon-gleam, And a lass that we love ashore!
1874 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night in National Reformer 26 Apr. 262/2 With tinted moongleams slanting here and there.
1915 J. Galsworthy Freelands xxxvi. 328 It was wonderfully lonely..with the moongleams slipping through the willow boughs.
moon-glimpse n. rare
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1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 31 In the faint moon-glimpse He saw..the Turkish admiral.
1989 F. Sampson White Nun's Telling xxxi. 214 But when the smoke eddied..she was there. The moon-glimpse of her face.
moon-haze n.
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1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed vii. 122 A faint beating, like that of a muffled drum, came out of the moon-haze.
1990 D. Duane Doctor's Orders v. 149 A blunt, sleek shape, that went over with a roar of ion-drivers and was lost against the moonhaze at the horizon.
moon-landing adj. and n.
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1962 Daily Tel. 5 July 26/6 A small Moon-landing capsule.
1969 Guardian 16 July 17/4 An American moon landing does not constitute an unchallenged lead over Russia.
1994 NewMedia Aug. 45/2 In December 1993, NASA mounted one of its most ambitious efforts since the moon landings: the Hubble space telescope repair mission.
moon landscape n.
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1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing iii. 43 Certain scenes..have the rugged and hostile greatness of a moon-landscape.
1975 Canad. Theatre Rev. (Toronto, Ont.) Spring 117 The landscape is terrifyingly beautiful, a moon landscape of clumpers, bergs, growlers.
moon-maid n.
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1887 Harper's Young People 30 Aug. 705 That was a happy time for the Moon-maid. She threw kisses, dozens of them, at the Sun-maid, and smiled at the beautiful planet.
1928 E. Blunden Retreat 14 Or mist-veil brushed thee, fine as yet was wove For moonmaid's clothing.
1987 J. Farrar & S. Farrar Witches' Goddess ix. 62 She is the Moon Maid, the Moon Mother and the Moon Crone, ever Triple and ever One.
moon-mist n.
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1897 J. Fox Hell fer Sartain 97 South Fork was shining under us like a loop of gold, the mountains lay about in tranquil heaps, and the moon-mist rose luminous between them.
1906 W. H. Ogilvie in B. Stevens Anthol. Austral. Verse 237 Wild wind o' the Autumn, may I dance this dance with you Decked out in your gown of moonmist and jewelled with drops of dew?
1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure vii. 103 The rooks..cawed a strange, wild symphony under the rising moon, far into the night, wheeling high under the stars, plainting in the moon-mist.
1973 Hispania 56 225/2 Chocano's horses sparkle in the blazing sun; Eguren's illusive horse disappears in moon mist.
moon mountain n.
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1736 B. Higgons Poem on Nature 8 From the Moon Mountains Nile and Niger roll'd.
a1821 J. Keats Sonnet to Nile in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1907) 305 Son of the old moon-mountains African!
1963 Times 11 May 9/7 I will long remember that new-born baby and the old man with a stroke, beginning and ending their..days in a pile of stones and seaweed, among the fish-bones and the moon mountains.
moon-path n.
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1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 13 Mar. 328/1 The tide-water river..flowed by, the moon-path shining goldenly across it.
1960 P. Anderson High Crusade xviii. 158 He stood gazing into the brook where twin moonpaths glided and shivered.
moon-pull n.
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1922 D. H. Lawrence Fantasia of Unconscious xv. 279 Her [sc. woman's] deep positivity is in the downward flow, the moon-pull.
1996 K. Crossley-Holland Lang. of Yes 63 Wind-push, moon-pull.
moon-ray n.
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1827 C. Swain Metrical Ess. 130 And where young lovers walk, In the clear moon-ray.
1926 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 530/2 A beam of moonrays streamed from a narrow window.
1971 K. Awoonor This Earth, my Brother 4 Upon the water at the spot where the steamers used to stop in those days, on the line of the biggest moonray she emerged.
moon-rising n.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 5 At eve, in þe mone risynge, he herde þe mone [read þe tree of þe mone] spekynge in þe langage of Grees.
1843 F. Sale Jrnl. Disasters Affghanistan 413 We are to march at moon-rising.
1927 Observer 11 Sept. 8 A..short interval between successive moonrisings being favourable for late harvest work.
2002 J. Eisinger tr. K. Mainzer Little Bk. of Time i. 2 The Babylonians created precise tables of the heliacal moon risings (moonrise in near conjunction with the sunrise).
† moon-setting n. Obsolete rare
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1905 E. F. Benson Image in Sand xviii. 290 The sublimities of the sun-rises and moon-settings were gone from her.
moon-shadow n.
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1925 E. Sitwell et al. Poor Young People 28 The moon-shadows Palely pass and re-pass.
1994 C. McCarthy Crossing 378 The blue moonshadow of the horses and the rider passing slant along the street.
moon-sky n.
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1934 E. Blunden Choice or Chance 55 To silence too that speaks angelic tongues From moon-skies and the sun's November gleam.
moon-stuff n.
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1929 E. H. Visiak Medusa xviii. 226 They are too apt already to be taken with such moonstuff.
1969 New Scientist 18 Dec. 607/1 We should not go ‘up there’..merely to bring back a few pounds of ‘moonstuff’.
1994 A. Fulton in Chicargo Rev. 40 3 I've been staring at the ceiling's stucco moonstuff for three hours.
moon-track n.
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1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? xii. x, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 534/2 They were to his eyes the moon track in the ocean of history.
1899 R. Kipling Five Nations (1903) 9 The moon-track a-quiver bewilders our eyes.
1996 H. Carruth Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey 21 We have no wide river, David, no moon-track.
moon-wake n.
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1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd ii. 137 The moonwake over the waters.
1997 C. Ozick Puttermesser Papers (1998) 92 The distant caps of little waves glinting in moonwake, neonwake.
b. Objective.
moon-gazing adj.
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1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 274 This ominous ramble of the moon-gazing ‘thrice illustrious’.
1959 A. Ridler Coll. Poems (1994) 131 If I had the power to turn you back to the self you think of so, Back to that moon-gazing girl of twenty years ago.
c. Instrumental or locative, with the sense ‘by the moon or moonlight, under the influence of the moon’.
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moon-bathed adj.
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1852 Ladies' Repository Dec. 456 O! Have you heard that peal, From sleeping city's moon-bathed battlements.
1939 S. Spender & J. L. Gili tr. F. G. Lorca Poems 51 To the sound of cold tambourines And moon-bathed cithars.
moon-blanched adj.
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1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 167 In the deserted moon-blanch'd street.
1994 J. Updike Brazil iv. 30 After the moon-blanched zigzags of the mountain streets, the inside of the shacks was as dark as a bottle of ink.
† moon-blasted adj. Obsolete rare
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1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 162 Ghastlier terrors than surround Moon-blasted Madness when he yells at midnight!
moon-bright adj.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > resembling moonlight > moonlit
moonlight1584
moonshine1587
moonshiny1602
moonshining1638
moony1648
moonlit1783
moon-bright1790
moonlighted1811
mooned1831
moon-litten1845
1790 E. Darwin Bot. Garden (ed. 2) II. iv. 164 On glowing wheels she tracks the moon-bright lawn.
1806 T. Moore Epistles, Odes 4 How we should feel, and gaze with bliss Upon the moon-bright scenery here!
1987 R. Hall Kisses of Enemy (1990) lxxviii. 447 Beyond the window, moonbright lawns padded softly among the trees.
moon-brightened adj.
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1911 W. B. Yeats Plays for Irish Theatre p. ix We feel our minds expand convulsively or spread out slowly like some moon-brightened image-crowded sea.
1935 E. Wall Lovers cry for Moon xxviii. 258 Overcome by a sudden yearning tenderness Dorothy sank on the edge of the child's bed and touched the moon-brightened hair with her lips.
2010 L. Thomas-Sundstrom Vampire Lover (electronic ed.) i If any manwolf accidentally stepped out from beneath the awning, lured onto the moonbrightened patio, she'd be waiting.
moon-chained adj.
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1901 Current Lit. July 48/2 The lover—ah, what shall I take To symbolize his faithful soul? The moon-chained tide with ceaseless flow, The needle constant to the pole, [etc.].
1922 F. B. Young in Georgian Poetry1920–22 192 No livening sun shall visit till the crust Of earth be riven, or this rolling planet Reel on its axis; till the moon-chained tides, Unloosed, deliver up that white Atlantis.
1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 63 The moon-chained and water-wound Metropolis of fishes.
1959 A. Smithies in Listener 5 Feb. 265/2 But the solitude of the moor And the moon-chained oceans call In that reticent, lonely cry Which belongs to him, above all.
moon-charmed adj.
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1850 Cooper's Jrnl. 184 As slowly as they grew In brilliancy they lose their borrowed light, And growing fainter still, fade from the moon-charmed sight.
1855 M. Arnold Southern Night xxx Down to the brimm'd moon-charmed Main.
1885 H. James Little Tour France xxx. 196 I sat there in the moon-charmed stillness, leaning my elbows on the battered parapet of the ring.
1991 M. Das Tiger at Twilight vi. 42 The whole valley had fallen into a moon-charmed stupor.
moon-chequered adj.
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1824 Somerset House Gaz. 26 June 183/1 The nightingale's plaint, or the moon-chequer'd flow'r, The thunders of Sinai, the law's scorching pow'r.
1835 Rugby Mag. July 38 Deep and dark the strong shade of that place Fell on the lane's moon-chequered face.
1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars vii. 95 The deep shadows of the moon-chequered forest.
1959 B. Sleigh Kingdom of Carbonel xiv. 93 They dived into the moon-chequered darkness under the currant bushes.
moon-crazed adj.
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1920 W. B. Yeats Four Plays for Dancers (1921) 72 The moon-crazed heron Would be but fishes' diet soon.
1992 J. Dickey Whole Motion 245 The moon-crazed inner eye of midwest imprisoned Water.
moon-dappled adj.
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1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars xix. 252 The moon-dappled forest through which they had so heavily ascended.
1976 T. Gunn Coll. Poems (1994) 245 I crawl along moon-dappled tunnels.
moon-dazzled adj.
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1940 C. Day Lewis Poems in Wartime 10 All over the countryside Moon-dazzled men are peering out for invaders.
moon-drawn adj.
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?1804 ‘A. Pasquin’ Hamiltoniad 85 The flood is past, that fed our moon-drawn tide.
1983 C. Ozick Cannibal Galaxy (1984) 16 The water of the heartland..would also be moon-drawn licking and tumbling and cresting into white rooster-combs, exactly like the planet's more exogenous waters.
moon-drenched adj.
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1889 Harper's Mag. Sept. 640/1 Who waves diaphanous beauty on some cliff That drowsing purrs with moon-drenched pines?
1990 E. Van Lustbader White Ninja ii. 317 It was a moon-drenched night.
moon-flecked adj.
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1857 Ladies' Repository Sept. 529/1 Through moon-flecked shadows.
1923 F. L. Packard Four Stragglers 124 And all moon-flecked underfoot!
1990 L. Thornton Under Gypsy Moon viii. 146 She awakes to see nothing but the moon-flecked water of the pool below her balcony.
2010 C. B. Divakaruni in N. Banerjee et al. Invisible 114 That night in the moon-flecked dormitory we woke to Ratna thrashing around in bed, calling for Sultan, her dog back home.
moon-flooded adj.
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1873 H. V. Dumont in Godey's Lady's Bk. Apr. 357/1 The piano and moon-flooded room were deserted.
1882 H. H. Boyesen Idyls of Norway 162 The mangled form of a martyr, Sightless, that stared with insensible orbs to the moon-flooded heaven.
1945 C. Mann in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 262 Nights..moon-flooded, starlit.
1994 A. Clampitt tr. Ovid Metamorphoses in M. Hofmann & J. Lasdun After Ovid 174 In the moon-flooded world there was no motion but the tremulous scintillation of the stars.
moon-freezing adj. In later quots. with allusion to quot. 1820.
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1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 20 The spears Of their moon-freezing chrystals.
1849 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 131/1 We verily believe that we should shut our eyes if we had a presentiment that an erratic snowball—‘moon-freezing’—..was about to salute the ear even of a royal servant in the person of a twopenny postman.
2000 F. Fleming Killing Dragons viii. 85 Castle crags, crawling glaciers and moon-freezing crystals tugged at the most moribund of imaginations.
moon-gathered adj.
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1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii II. iii. xi. 164 These old hags, with..their moon-gathered herbs.
a1967 V. Watkins Ballad Outer Dark (1979) 37 In the luck of the ark That is rocked on the moon-gathered sea.
moon-glittering adj.
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1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 158 Where, by night,..The lion couches..; Or serpent rolls his vast moon-glittering bulk.
1829 R. Southey To Contemplation in Poet. Wks. 669/1 Watch the horn-eyed snail Creep o'er his long moon-glittering trail.
a1923 H. Trench Poems (1924) 22 The great gull dives From Muilréa's moon-glittering peak.
2009 R. O. Scott Foul is Fair xx. 117 Staring into her alluringly bright, moon-glittering eyes.
moon-haunted adj.
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1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home 248 She..Bids Hybla's thyme and Tempe's violet dwell Round the green marge of her moon-haunted cell.
1935 T. Wolfe Of Time & River iv. lxi. 539 Through the opened window was revealed anew the..moon-haunted woods below and to each side, and down below them..the lovely and immortal river.
1978 K. Worth Irish Drama Yeats to Beckett iv. 105 In the imagery of the play, they were mirrors, showing each the likeness of a God- or moon-haunted face.
moon-horned adj.
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1803 J. Leyden Scenes of Infancy iii. 90 Nile's broad moon-horned flood.
1894 O. Wilde Sphinx And did you talk with Thoth, and did you hear the moon-horned Io weep?
1960 T. Hughes Lupercal 60 And has shorn Summarily the moon-horned river From my bed.
moon-led adj.
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1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art lxv, in Poems (new ed.) 87 A still salt pool,..that hears..The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moonled waters white.
1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 90 The mighty waters of the Deep, Moon-led, all night their measures keep.
1925 E. Blunden Eng. Poems 24 He as moon-led muses On that beauty where farm lads Play at cricket with their dads.
2004 A. Rowe Carmen at Fountain 6 When the full moon rises, the village girls sigh lost in passionate bright dreams, moon-led.
moon-locked adj.
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1943 C. Day Lewis Word over All 42 The earth is buoyed in Moon-locked oblivion.
moon-loved adj.
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1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxvi, in Poems 12 The yellow-skirted Fayes..leaving their Moon-lov'd maze.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Coll. Wks.: Poems (1997) III. 263 So my ghost may meet with yours On yon moon-loved lea.
1994 ‘Sui Sin Far’ Mrs. Spring Fragrance 182 The fish and turtles he would release in a moon-loved pool called the Pool of Happy Life.
moon-mad adj.
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1777 H. H. Brackenridge Death Gen. Montgomery v. v. 48 You vile rebellious progeny of..moon-mad liberty.
1869 W. Barnes Early England & Saxon-English 103/2 Moon~mad.
1984 ELH 51 844 Kinbote soaks up all the moon-mad Zemblamania.
† moon-made adj. Obsolete rare
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1861 R. W. Dixon Christ's Company 114 And moon-made goblins seen in shuddering woods.
1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 69 As steals The moon-made shadow at some traveller's heels.
† moon-mellowed adj. Obsolete rare
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1796 S. T. Coleridge To Nightingale 10 Within whose mild moon-mellow'd foliage hid.
moon-misted adj.
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1936 L. B. Lyon Bright Feather Fading 17 Yet parishes moon-misted, Yet Avon, Severn, Humber His name remember.
1993 J. Merrill Different Person xxi. 260 The streets were empty, moon-misted as I walked home.
† moon-parched adj. Obsolete
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1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. K4v After short prayers, they set on bread; A Moon-parcht grain of purest wheat.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. vii. 637 Most people..would obtain the finest thrill that Oxford could offer from the sudden sight of..the moon-parched High Street in frost.
† moon-raised adj. Obsolete rare
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1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 88 Haud your tongue, ye moon-raised b——!
moon-rich adj. rare
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1925 C. Day Lewis Beechen Vigil 30 In a moon-rich garden.
2016 B. Ryden Dynamics ii. 20 The Hill radius of moon-rich Jupiter..is nearly 300 times the Hill radius of moon-deprived Mercury.
moon-shadowed adj.
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1904 S. D. Gordon Quiet Talks on Prayer ii. ii. 100 These moon-shadowed trees.
1958 J. Betjeman Coll. Poems 270 Near your curious mausoleum Moonshadowed on the grass.
1999 National Geographic Dec. 117/1 I entered the moon-shadowed courtyard of the castle.
moon-soaked adj.
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1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy Epil. 133 Herbs moon-soak'd on Hecate's altars.
1914 Black Cat 20 8/2 They stepped into the room, bringing the air of the windy moon-soaked night.
1998 W. Coleman Bathwater Wine 111 Blood-splashed leaves cling to a porous moon-soaked walk.
2008 A. R. Siddons Off Season vi. 111 Even the green darkness of the deep woods around us would be moon soaked tonight.
† moon-tanned adj. Obsolete rare
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1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. O And now he finds His Moon-tann'd Mab.
† moon-taught adj. Obsolete rare
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1850 E. B. Browning Sea-side Walk in Poems (new ed.) II. 204 The water grey Swang in its moon-taught way.
moon-trodden adj.
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1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 41 Making sweet..moon-trodden ways And breathless gates and extreme hills of heaven.
1993 Information Design Jrnl. 7–8 56 My way is clear on a moon-trodden path.
moon-warmed adj.
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1959 R. Graves Coll. Poems 316 A moon-warmed world of discontinuance.
1977 E. Jennings Consequently I Rejoice 66 As four hands in a moon-warmed theatre Release our violence and make us kind.
moon-washed adj.
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1887 H. D. Rawnsley Sonnets round Coast vii. ii. i. 147 Bright in the moon-washed heaven the Charioteer Hangs.
1902 W. D. Howells Lit. & Life 62 A few moon-washed stars pierce the vast vault with their keen points.
1997 J. Gallas Grrrrr 36 I saw a storm riding on its moon-washed clouds.
2016 B. L. Durfee Forgetting Moon xlvii. 700 Foamy waves crested the sea in the distance, glinting with a moon-washed glow.
moon-whitened adj.
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1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy v. 352 Fedalma stood and watched the little bark Lying jet-black upon moon-whitened waves.
1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy vii. 187 Their moon-whiten'd wings.
1927 ‘M. Brand’ Legend of Thunder Moon (1969) xx. 99 When the six walked back across the moon-whitened prairie, not a word was spoken, except a murmured adieu.
2007 A. R. Siddons Heartbreak Hotel xiii. 205 Maggie paused restlessly on the moon-whitened landing, then tiptoed back downstairs.
(b) (In sense 5a.)
moon-crowned adj.
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1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iv. 168 And moon-crown'd mosques lay smoaking in the dust.
a1887 E. Lazarus Poems (1889) II. 16 That hoary race who..knelt At the moon-crowned Isis' shrine.
2006 H. R. Lynton Mission to Kabul ii. 18 The moon-crowned beauty dare not wear Dhaka muslin.
d. Similative.
(a) With past participles.
† moon-arched adj. Obsolete rare
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1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ii. 77 Stern warriors with the quivering lance, Or moon-arch'd bow.
moon-browed adj.
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1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 90 Moon-browed maids.
1891 E. Fawcett Songs of Doubt & Dream 26 Unto none came affliction more keen Than to me, his moon-browed Amyiti.
1901 J. Payne tr. S. M. Hâfiz in P. Loloi Hafiz, Master of Persian Poetry (2004) 238 Quaff the red wine and the face Of the moon-browed fair behold.
1990 J. Heath-Stubbs Sel. Poems 41 Hafiz still sat there on the lawn: A moon-browed Saki poured for him.
moon-coloured adj.
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1846 Ladies' Repository June 179 This is a structure of the most polished and beautiful moon-colored marble.
1922 W. de la Mare Down-adown-Derry 20 A beaming of moon-coloured light.
1991 J. Wolf Daughter of Red Deer i. x. 115 Arn shook his head and his soft, moon-colored hair lifted and swung with the motion.
(b) With adjectives.
moon-blue adj.
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1918 D. H. Lawrence New Poems 33 A moon-blue moth goes flittering by.
1984 W. Kinsella Thrill of Grass in M. Atwood & R. Weaver Oxf. Bk. Canad. Short Stories (1986) 293 They move methodically toward the baseball stadium which hulks against the moon-blue sky like a small mountain.
moon-cold adj.
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1835 G. Darley Nepenthe 16 Themselves at quiet Under veils and vapoury lawns, Thro' which their moon-cold lustre dawns.
1944 E. Sitwell Song of Cold 1 Till the fire of that sun The heart and the moon-cold bone are one.
moon-cool adj.
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1969 G. MacBeth War Quartet 29 Staled Of heat, now moon-cool.
moon-grey adj.
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1927 J. Joyce She weeps over Rahoon in Pomes Penyeach His sad heart has lain Under the moongrey nettles.
1991 D. Bolger Woman's Daughter (1992) 215 Johnny had a naggin of whiskey which burnt against his throat as he rais'd it and gazed at the moon-grey crop encircling them.
moon-pale adj.
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1927 F. B. Young Portrait of Clare 129 An orchard..in which moon-pale apples lay where they had fallen.
1960 L. Buckley Hiporama of Classics 49 Wild incense flyin' all over the place and that Buddha-headed moon pale Jazzmin colored flippin' the scene.
moon-white adj.
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1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xxxvi. 555 Tall columned courts With moonwhite marble impaved and night-black slabs.
a1963 S. Plath Crossing Water (1971) 38 The moth-face of her husband, moonwhite and ill, Circles her like a prey.
moon-yellow adj.
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1910 W. Sharp Poems & Dramas 287 Far off a phantom stag on the moon-yellow highlands Ceases.
1961 R. Graves More Poems 29 And in my dreams went chasing here and there A fugitive beacon—your moon-yellow hair.
(c) With nouns.
† moonhead n. Obsolete rare
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. vi. 129 The rubicund moon-head goes wagging; darker beams the copper visage.
C2. Also with possessive moon's.
† moon-blink n. Nautical Obsolete rare a temporary night blindness supposed to result from sleeping exposed to moonlight.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Moon-blink, a temporary evening blindness occasioned by sleeping in the moonshine in tropical climates.
† moonblow n. Obsolete rare an injury or ailment attributed to the effect of moonlight.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > other injuries
mischance1587
wringing1611
moonblow1851
industrial injury1855
beat elbow1905
pole-wound1908
boo-boo1932
neurapraxia1942
neurotmesis1942
owie1967
1851 R. F. Burton Sindh I. ii. 12 It took his countenance a year or two to recover from the effects of the moonblow.
1873 J. Timbs Doctors & Patients I. 260 Many an incautious negro has risen in the morning from his sleep in the moonlight with one side of his face by no means the colour of the other; and probably it took him some months to recover from the effects of moon-blow.
moon boot n. a boot resembling one typically worn by an astronaut on a moonwalk; spec. (a proprietary name for) a waterproof boot with a deep sole and thick insulating lining, often brightly coloured and decorated with fur; usually in plural.
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1976 Oxf. Times 16 Jan. 31 For apres-ski wear the item you'll kick yourself for missing out on is a pair of furry moonboots.
1986 G. Keillor Lake Wobegon Days 207 His feet were like clubfeet in two moon boots.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 12 Sept. c1/2 Or maybe an image of those marshmallowy moon boots that lie forgotten in the back of the closet?
moon-born adj. chiefly poetic (a) born under the moon's influence; (b) originating from the moon.
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1691 J. Dryden King Arthur ii. i. 13 A Moon-born Elf.
1770 D. Garrick King Arthur ii. iv. 13 Let not a moon-born elf mislead ye From your prey.
1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy vii. 69 The moon-born music of the nightingale.
1971 Current Anthropol. 12 12 Savaranola was a moon-born seer.
moon-bounce n. use of the moon as a reflector of radio waves (chiefly in the UHF band) which are aimed at it from one ground station and detected by another.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > transmission paths
hop1939
moon-bounce1960
1960 Aeroplane 98 320/1 The Moon-bounce technique was a form of long-distance radio communication which could be carried out on wavelengths which were not susceptible to ionospheric or other terrestrial disturbances.
1968 Radio Communication Handbk. (ed. 4) xii. 20/2 Typical ground station equipment for moonbounce requires a transmitter output power exceeding 100 watts, net aerial gains of the order of 15–20 db, and receivers of 500 c/s bandwidth.
1989 Electronics & Wireless World Feb. 202/4 American radio amateurs have made the first Earth-Moon-Earth (‘moon-bounce’) contact on the 10 GHz amateur band.
moonbound adj. directed towards or bound for the moon.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [adjective] > towards
moonbound1965
1965 NASA Facts 3 i. 4 The moonbound Apollo's space navigation system includes two relatively conventional units.
1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 198/1 To Teddy, the gap between himself and..mythic brother, Jack, must have seemed as vast as the space that separated his lowly shuttle to Boston from the three moon-bound astronauts.
moonbow n. a rainbow produced by moonlight.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > light of moon > [noun] > rainbow
lunar rainbow1712
moon rainbow1850
moonbow1871
1871 G. MacDonald Wks. Fancy & Imagination II. 203 All the colours..In rainbow, moonbow, or in opal gem.
1998 Audubon Mar. 118/1 (advt.) Kentuckians will tell you that on mist-draped, moonlit nights, visitors can see a magical moonbow at the base of the falls.
moon box n. Theatre (now rare) a device designed to produce a representation of the moon.
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1866 W. Davidge Footlight Flashes 149 (caption) Moon Box.
1916 A. E. Krows Play Production in Amer. xxvii. 227 Stage moons have long been contrived of a box containing a light with a transparency on the side nearest the audience, pulled jerkily upward as the moon is supposed to rise. They also are projected, in combination with a moving cloud effect, by the stereopticon. Lincoln J. Carter made his moon-box a cornucopia, silvered on the inside, with a powerful white light in the small end, and raised steadily into place by clockwork.
2000 Stage 13 July 23 We travelled with a large moon box, banks of fairy lights and two Howie ground rows, all of which had to be changed to the Continental ten amp round pin type connectors.
moonbug n. colloquial a module designed to take astronauts from an orbiting spacecraft to the moon's surface and back; a lunar module.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > module or capsule
landing craft1940
ferry1951
capsule1954
space capsule1954
module1961
service module1961
Lem1962
moonbug1963
1963 Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 856/1 Moon bug, the LEM [i.e. lunar excursion module].
1969 Daily Tel. 10 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 21 (caption) Parent spacecraft (command and service modules) separates leaving lunar module (‘moonbug’) attached to rocket stage.
moon buggy n. a small vehicle designed for use by astronauts on the moon.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > car for use on moon
moon-car1957
moon rover1961
moon crawler1962
scooter1963
moon buggy1971
1971 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 10 Mar. (2nd section) 1/1 The first U.S. moon buggy, a space-craft with wire wheels, telescoping fenders and chair-like seats, is ready,..the Boeing Co. says.
2002 Philadelphia Inquirer 22 Dec. d 6 chart Apollo 17 was the third mission to use the battery-powered moon buggy.
moonburnt adj. moonstruck, affected by the moon.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > lunatic
lunaticc1290
mooneda1557
moonsick1562
moonburnt1568
moonstruck1674
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) iv. 65 Sum monebrunt madynis myld, At nonetyd of the nicht, Ar chappit vp with chyld.
1819 D. B. Warden Statist., Polit. & Hist. Acct. U.S. II. xviii. 211 Worm holes, ripe shot, or sun-burnt, moon-burnt, house-burnt, stunted by growth, torn by storms of hail or wind, injured or killed by frost.
1933 W. Soutar Seeds in Wind 32 Münebrunt... The dug..cocks his ee an' glowers abüne Whaur leams the müne thru caller weather.
1990 B. Farmer Body of Water 33 Urgently wishing I could hurtle over the cliff and be a flung white shape flying, a moon-burnt Icarus.
2000 S. Pevsner Is Everyone Moonburned But Me? viii. 91 abcom, moonburned. I had to agree..that Cheyenne was a genuine abcom... And Kelsey? Borderline moonburned, I'd have to say.
moon-cake n. [after Chinese yuèbǐng < yuè moon + bǐng cake] a round cake traditionally eaten during Chinese mid-autumn festivities.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > others
God's kichelc1410
christening cake1682
moon-cake1688
birthday cake1802
feast cake1845
burial-cake1864
yuan hsiao1945
1688 tr. G. de Magalhães New Hist. China xx. 318 The preceding Days they send to one another Presents of little Loaves and Sugar-Cakes, which they call Yue Pim, or Moon-Cakes. They are round,..and represent the Full Moon.
1866 J. Doolittle Social Life Chinese (new ed.) II. iii. 66 Some of these ‘moon-cakes’ have a white rabbit, engaged with his pounder, painted on one side.
1938 C. Yee Silent Traveller in London 38 At this time [sc. mid-September] all the sweet-shops produce a great variety of seasonable cakes, which we call ‘Moon-Cake’, and those especially which are made in Canton in South China are very famous.
1986 Sunday Mail (New Delhi) 21 Sept. 12 (advt.) And the mooncakes simmer with sweet and savoury secrets. As the darkness deepens, pearly moonbeams cast their spell on you.
2012 T. E. Tan Garden of Evening Mists x. 139 Old Mr Ong..used to hold moon-watching parties. We'd see his children playing with lanterns. His first wife always gave us moon-cakes.
moon-car n. = moon buggy n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > car for use on moon
moon-car1957
moon rover1961
moon crawler1962
scooter1963
moon buggy1971
1957 N.Y. Times 4 May 19/6 By the year 2000 the moon may be explored by men driving ‘Moon Cars’; spaceships may be powered by electricity derived from the sun.
1965 Sci. World 28 Oct. 8 Would a sticky coating of dust block the window of an astronaut's ‘moon car’?
1997 A. C. Clarke 3001: Final Odyssey xl. 245 The small convoy of mooncars was arranged in a semi-circle.
2007 G. Heiken & E. Jones On Moon iv. 201 (heading) The Lunar Dune Buggy. Concepts, Prototypes, and a real Mooncar.
† moon-clock n. Obsolete rare a clock showing the changes and phases of the moon (cf. sense 10).
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > sun- or moon-clock
sun clock1737
moon-clock1800
1800 Gentleman's Mag. 1226/2 Under the West tower is a moon-clock.
† moon clover n. Obsolete a medick plant; (perhaps) the tree medick, Medicago arborea; cf. moon trefoil n.
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1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 99 at Claver Lugd. his creeping round prickly hart of Arabia, and moone cl.
1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 47 Camerarius his Moon Claver.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Medica lunata, Moon Claver.
mooncraft n. (a) a spacecraft bound for the moon; (b) = moon buggy n.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > to go to the moon
moon-ship1832
mooncraft1958
lunik1959
1958 Flying July 70/3 Again, the Titan ICBM appears a likely candidate for the mooncraft's first and second stage.
1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics v. 216 Evidence derived from stationary and mobile mooncraft will doubtless support the belief that any manned bases or outposts on the Moon will have to be underground.
1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 553 You can..fire a rocket engine, land a mooncraft by computer,..man the controls of a spacecraft.
2009 M. Carroll Seventh Landing 17/1 A second stage utilized eight engines, while a third brought the L3 Moon craft into earth orbit with four smaller engines.
moon crawler n. = moon buggy n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > car for use on moon
moon-car1957
moon rover1961
moon crawler1962
scooter1963
moon buggy1971
1962 Michigan Technic Apr. 23 (caption) Moon crawler. Early next year, if everything goes according to plan, this spiderlike object—the ‘Surveyor’—is expected to land on the moon's surface, look at it, feel it, and bite into it.
1970 Guardian 18 Nov. 1/2 Russia is likely to try to bring its moon crawler Lunokod-I back to earth.
2000 A. McCaffrey Pegasus in Space 271 He didn't need the shadow of the moon crawler. Been there before. Can do it again.
moon creeper n. = moonflower n. 2.
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1877 J. C. Gray Biblical Museum: Old Test. II. 380 A creeping plant of great beauty and fragrance, well known in the East under the name of ‘the moon creeper’.
1890 Cent. Dict. Moon-creeper, same as moon-flower, 2.
1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 317 Moon Creeper, see Calonyction.
2001 M. Stoecklein Compl. Plant Select. Guide 409/2 Moon Creeper Cotoneaster.
† moon cutter n. Obsolete rare a person who cuts gas globes (see sense 5a).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of other specific finished articles
anchorsmith1296
paliser1315
sheather1379
buckler-maker1415
barrow-maker1468
chess-maker1481
belt maker1483
leg-makera1500
reel-makera1500
card maker1511
lattice-maker1550
pale cleaver1578
bead-maker1580
boss-maker1580
balloonier1598
bilbo-smith1632
block-makera1687
pen-makera1703
pipe-maker1766
platemaker1772
stickman1786
safe maker?1789
matchmaker1833
chipmaker1836
labelmaker1844
bandagist1859
hurdler1874
moon cutter1883
tie-maker1901
1883 Birmingham Daily Post 11 Oct. 3/3 (advt.) Flint~glass Trade.—Moon Cutter Wanted.
moon daisy n. the ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > chrysanthemums
goldOE
buddle?a1350
great daisya1400
white bottlea1400
bigolda1500
maudlin-wort1552
chrysanthemum1578
ox-eyea1637
whiteweed1642
ox-eye daisy1731
moonflower1787
ox-daisy1813
ox-eyed daisy1817
pyrethrum1837
horse-gowan1842
marguerite1847
maudlin daisy1855
moon daisy1855
pompom1861
moon-penny1866
crown daisy1875
Korean chrysanthemum1877
Paris daisy1882
mum1891
Shasta daisy1901
chrysanth1920
penny-daisy1920
Korean1938
Nippon daisy1939
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 311 Ox-eye or Moon Daisy.
a1887 R. Jefferies Toilers of Field (1892) 310 The broad moon-daisies stand in the grass.
1911 G. Stratton-Porter Harvester xiii. 164 Pearl-white turtle head and moon daisies.
1990 J. McGahern Amongst Women 25 Crossing the road to water the bed of dahlias and moon daisies and nasturtiums she kept on the grass margin.
2011 E. Newmark Sandalwood Tree iv. 37 Martin brought home a fistful of moon daisies. He said, ‘Moon daisies don't close up at night like ordinary daisies.’
moondog n. a dog that howls at the moon; spec. = mooner n. 1.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > guard dog
porter?a1425
wap1464
dog keeper1576
mooner1576
warner1576
house dog1577
mâtin1579
defender1607
housekeeper1607
watchdoga1616
moondog1668
yard-dog1795
guard dog1796
big dog1833
tenter1844
junkyard dog1936
prowl dog1974
1668 J. Evelyn Let. 24 June in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 204 Let the moon-dogs bark on, till their throats are dry.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 184/1 The Mooner, or Moon-Dog which continually is Barking at the Moon.
1832 J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 163 'Tween the screech of the owl and the moon dog's moan.
1992 Dragon Mag. Feb. 24/3 A moondog is an excellent guardian for keeping watch around a paladin's stronghold.
moondown n. North American the time when the moon goes down or disappears from the sky.
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1797 B. Hawkins Let. 23 Dec. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 276 Last evening, just before moon down, his camp had been fired on.
1863 W. B. Cheadle Jrnl. 31 Mar. in Jrnl. Trip across Canada (1931) 125 Camp at moondown in wood close to our lake.
1967 R. F. Leslie High Trails West 170 At moondown coyotes, kit foxes, bobcats, badgers, and ringtail cats began a continuous chorus.
2003 T. Mac Intyre Story of Girl 78 I've great time for the heron, watch him till moondown.
† moon-drake n. [after firedrake n.] Obsolete a fiery moon.Apparently an isolated use.
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a1635 R. Corbet Non Sequitur in Poems (1807) 218 See where a moon-drake 'gins to rise.
Moon Festival n. (in China and Chinese communities elsewhere) a festival celebrated in mid-autumn on the fifteenth night of the eighth moon of the Chinese year, originally a family gathering after completion of the harvest; (more generally) any festival associated with a phase of the moon.
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > other festivities
hoppingc1330
hocking1406
church ale1448
bid-alec1462
kirk-ale1543
maids' ale1547
quaff-tide1582
help-ale1587
clerk-ale1627
Chinese New Year1704
Rasa-yatra1767
spring festival1788
souling1813
gooding1818
walking day1826
yatra1827
triacontaëterid1839
pwe1842
Thomasing1847
hocking-ale1854
Mary-ale1857
Oktoberfest1859
Marymass1866
club-walking1874
Lag b'Omer1874
full moon festival1876
beerfest1877
Tanabata1880
Moon Festival1892
bierfest1908
sausage fest1908
Zar1931
rara1941
mas'1956
molimo1960
Kwanzaa1970
1892 J. D. Ball Things Chinese 114 The Moon Festival on the 15th day of the 8th moon, in September or October.
1924 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 54 186 The author..tells us of other features almost or wholly unknown elsewhere in West Africa—..a moon festival in the sixth month,..and a special festival on the last day of each month.
1962 F. D. Ommanney Fragrant Harbour iv. 83 Chinese shops become illuminated caves of colour on the Moon Festival.
1987 Atlantic Apr. t32/1 Candles are placed inside three pagodas on the main lake..for the Moon Festival.
moon flask n. [after Chinese bàoyuè píng, lit. ‘moon-embracing flask’ or bǎoyuè píng, lit. ‘precious moon flask’] chiefly historical a type of ceramic bottle with a flattened circular body and rounded handles on either side of the neck, made in China from the 15th cent.; cf. pilgrim's bottle n. at pilgrim n. Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > flask > other types of flask
bombolo1840
lekythos1851
moon flask1974
1927 W. B. Honey Guide to Later Chinese Porcelain App. B. 82 The flat-sided vase..sometimes known as a pilgrim's bottle, is to the Chinese also known as pao yüeh p'ing (full-moon vase).
1945 W. B. Honey Ceramic Art of China 112 Some of the finest specimens in this Hsiian Tê manner are of the ‘pilgrim-bottle’ shape—the ‘precious-moon flask’ of the Chinese.]
1974 Times 26 Oct. 16/4 A fifteenth-century Chinese blue and white moon flask, just under 10 in high, was sold for £165,757..yesterday.
1989 Independent 18 Jan. 3/4 Top price was £294,607..for a 10 in early Ming dynasty..double-gourd moon flask.
2009 R. Krahl & J. Harrison-Hall Chinese Ceramics (Brit. Museum) 84 (caption) Moon flask with pairs of birds on flowering branches Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.
† moonflaw n. Obsolete rare a disability attributed to the moon's influence.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > lunacy
lunacy1541
moonflawa1652
lunaticness1662
moon-madness1817
a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iv. vii. 95 in Five New Playes (1659) I fear she has a Moonflaw in her brains.
moon-flight n. a space flight to the moon.
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > a space shot or flight > to the moon
moon-flight1931
moonshot1949
moon-shoot1958
1931 C. P. Mason Let. in Wonder Stories Apr. 1332/1 The film..is a magnificent thing and shows with thrilling accuracy what a moon flight will be like.
1936 Time 2 Mar. 51/1 Dr. Goddard, who hates to stir up gaudy talk of moon flights, announces his present objective as reaching 50 miles into the stratosphere.
1963 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 12 The Soviet Union, he says, is planning no manned moon-flights.
1987 Spaceflight Oct. 65/2 These were the highlights of man's historic first moonflight achieved by Apollo 8.
2003 T3 Mar. 67/1 The result was a deluge of calls from eager would-be space tourists, and the establishment of the first moon-flights club.
moonfruit pine n. [compare pine n.2 2] U.S. a North American clubmoss, Lycopodium lucidulum, which has crescent-shaped sporangia.
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1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 310 Lycopodium..lucidulum..moon-fruit pine... Fruit lunulate.
1876 C. E. Hobbs Bot. Hand-bk. 188 Lycopodium lucidulum, Moon fruit pine.
1938 J. K. Small Ferns Southeastern States 405 Besides the common name trailing-evergreen, the plant [sc. Lycopodium lucidulum] is also known as Shining clubmoss and Moonfruit-pine.
moon gate n. [after Chinese yuèliang mér < yuèliang moon + mér gate] a circular opening or gateway in a wall, characteristic of Chinese architecture.
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1924 W. Honsinger Beyond Moon Gate x. 176 If I follow the lure back to a second glimpse beyond the Moon-Gate, I shall add to the adventures.
1989 D. Pearson Nat. House Bk. iii. ix. 239 The circular, inscribed Chinese ‘moon gate’ symbolizes the entry into the inner spiritual world evoked by the 6th-century Chinese poet-recluse Pei Di.
2010 tr. in M. Chia & K. D. North Taoist Shaman (new ed.) viii. 120 I hurtled through the orange door, dived through the red moon gate into the garden and rolled across the grass.
moonglade n. U.S. the track made by moonlight on water.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > moonlight > on water
moonglade1867
1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. xlv Moonglade: a beautiful word: for the track of moonlight on the water.
1982 J. Mark Aquarius iv. 61 The King..rose from the bench..his cloak unfurling like a moonglade behind him.
moonglow n. the glow or light of the moon.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > moonlight
moonlightc1300
moona1393
moonshinec1425
night-shine1648
moonglow1860
1860 E. C. Jones Corayda ii. 53 There stood the cottage in the white moon-glow, Like walls of marble with a roof of snow.
1990 Paris Rev. Fall 120 In that olden era the whale roved the wind... He basked in moonglow which darkened his skin to a pale grey.
moon-god n. a god associated with the moon.
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moon-goddess1831
moon-god1862
1862 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies: Chaldæa I. viii. 200 The temple at Mugheir was built in honour of the moongod, Sin or Hurki.
1972 G. E. Evans & D. Thomson Leaping Hare x. 118 The hare was also associated with the moon in Ancient Egypt particularly with a moon-god, Un-nefer.
moon-goddess n. a goddess associated with the moon.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > of specific things > of heavenly bodies
moon-goddess1831
moon-god1862
1831 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy 194 From their confounding her with their own Artemis, it would seem that they regarded her as the moon-goddess.
1976 Hiroshima Stud. Eng. Lang. & Lit. 21 15 Mr. Graves's liking for sun and moon symbols is attested to widely in his work, and many of his poems display some contrast between sun and moon..or between sun-god and moon-goddess.
moon jelly n. a common white or bluish jellyfish of the genus Aurita; esp. A. aurita, found in seas worldwide.
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1951 G. Klingel Bay iv. 56 Not the least interesting of the Bay's medusae is Aurelia, the moon jelly.
1994 Undercurrents (Mystic, Connecticut) Summer 11/2 The moon jelly ranges from a few inches to a foot in diameter. Its ‘jelly’ is milky white or bluish, and the tentacles are short—no longer than an inch or so.
moon jellyfish n. = moon jelly n.
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1993 Amicus Jrnl. Spring 42/1 Moon jellyfish hung in the water—amorphous, frilly, white.
moon-knife n. now historical and rare a crescent-shaped knife used by leather-workers.
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1876 Ladies' Repository Apr. 372/2 Vellum is made from the skins of very young calves..by a process of liming to remove the hair and fatty substances, then carefully stretched on a frame, and, with an instrument called a moon knife, scraped on both sides.
1882 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 389/2 The dyed leather is..grounded with a curious moon knife.
1909 H. G. Bennett Manuf. Leather 359 In perching the mechanical treatment is less violent, the goods being..scraped by means of the ‘moon-knife’.
1978 Pennsylvania Archaeol. Sept. 30/1 A moon-knife was used to soften animal skins by breaking down fibers.
moonland n. the moon; the surface of the moon; (also) a desolate place resembling this.
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1839 T. T. Stoddart Songs & Poems x. 196 From star to star, by the dewy way That to the moon-land leads—Heave to, heave to!
1922 J. A. Dunn Man Trap xv. 207 Death cold the nights in this dead land that looks like moonland.
1988 Indian Bookworm's Jrnl. Autumn 23/3 The mysterious moonland of Ladakh is now open to the public.
moon lander n. a spacecraft designed for landing on the surface of the moon.
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1970 Sci. Jrnl. May 7/1 Neil Armstrong climbing down those few fragile steps of his moonlander's ladder to the craggy lunar surface.
1991 Astronomy Dec. 52/1 Data from Apollo and a flotilla of unmanned Moon orbiters, crashers, and landers have yielded many answers.
moon-lily n. (a) = moonflower n. 2; (b) South African and U.S. = angel's trumpet n. at angel n. Compounds 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > tropical
quamoclit1633
sippo1657
monkey vine1750
goat's foot1773
Ipomœa1785
liana1796
Thunbergia?1799
morning-glory1814
gaybine1842
cypress vine1846
bejuco1848
scindapsus1848
Rangoon creeper1850
moonflower1859
kaladana1866
moon-lily1888
1888 W. C. Russell Death Ship III. 129 The moon-lily when it hangs down its white beauty and contracts its milky petals.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 325 Moon lily or Moon flower, Datura Knightii, which has long, pendulous, strongly scented white flowers.
1968 E. Abbey Desert Solitaire 28 The sacred datura—moonflower, moonlily..blooms in the night, soft white trumpet-shaped flowers that open only in darkness and close with the coming of the heat.
moon-madness n. lunacy, insanity.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > lunacy
lunacy1541
moonflawa1652
lunaticness1662
moon-madness1817
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. xvii. 136 Want, and Moon-madness, and the pest's swift Bane.
1975 J. L. Anderson Night of Silent Drums i. vi. 30 Jannis..had awakened early and, being subject to a degree of moon-madness, had gone off on horseback for a gallop.
moonmark n. chiefly poetic a crescent-shaped marking.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > markings on
moonmark1879
1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 80 Only I'll Have an eye to the sakes of him, quaint moonmarks, to his pelted plumage under Wings.
1879 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 83 By moonmarks I mean crescent shaped markings on the quill-feathers, either in the colouring of the feather or made by the overlapping of one on another.
1925 W. A. Cornaby String of Chinese Peach-stones xi. 243 ‘Sun and moon Ming’ on the back, and over it the moonmark made by the thumb-nail of the Heaven King himself.
2015 L. Thomas-Sundstrom Wolf Born v. 61 His moon mark..showed through the colorless fur of his left upper arm.
moon-month n. a lunar month.
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1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Moon-month.
1995 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 10 July 2 a And whatever happened to the 13-month year that I remember being discussed as a child? Nice, round, easy 28 day moon-months.
moon moth n. any of several large pale silk moths of the family Saturniidae, esp. (more fully Indian moon moth) Actias selene and (more fully Spanish moon moth) Graellsia isabellae; cf. luna moth at luna n.
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1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 187 The pale-green, satin-robed Moon moth (Attacus luna).
1901 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 254 Lured by the lamp, a moon moth floated in, dyed for a moment its rare pale translucence in the glowing light, and then..sank to a disfigured death.
1974 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 187 136 Actias selene (Hübner), the Indian moon moth, a native of Asia. The silk is dark and not used commercially.
2001 Mirror (Nexis) 6 Sept. 21 A rare Spanish moon moth with a 7in wingspan was caught by a car park attendant in Cornwall.
moon-penny n. the ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > chrysanthemums
goldOE
buddle?a1350
great daisya1400
white bottlea1400
bigolda1500
maudlin-wort1552
chrysanthemum1578
ox-eyea1637
whiteweed1642
ox-eye daisy1731
moonflower1787
ox-daisy1813
ox-eyed daisy1817
pyrethrum1837
horse-gowan1842
marguerite1847
maudlin daisy1855
moon daisy1855
pompom1861
moon-penny1866
crown daisy1875
Korean chrysanthemum1877
Paris daisy1882
mum1891
Shasta daisy1901
chrysanth1920
penny-daisy1920
Korean1938
Nippon daisy1939
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 754/1 Moon-penny. Chrysanthemum leucanthemum.
1940 F. Kitchen Brother to Ox ix. 152 The grass-reaper..cuts through life, sweeping down the slender moon-pennies and toppling them over.
1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 372/2 Moon daisy or moonpenny was always a better name for this bright, brisk flower that can seem to glow in the fields on midsummer evenings.
moonphase n. a phase of the moon; (Watchmaking and Clockmaking) a dial which shows the current phase of the moon.
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1953 Science 20 Mar. 309/2 Utilizing 20 years of data from the Boston record, no relationship of minimum temperatures to moon phases could be found.
1984 Antiquarian Horol. Dec. 102 (advt.) An impressive..clock..with an 8-day movement, moonphases and calendar indications.
1990 Antique Collector May 131 (caption) This Red Walnut Longcase Clock has attained a wonderful colour and patination. The brass dial with concentric calender [sic] and moonphase to the arch.
Moon Pie n. U.S. (a proprietary name for) a small round cake consisting of a layer of marshmallow sandwiched between two biscuits and covered either in chocolate or flavoured icing and popular esp. in the Southern states of the United States.
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1930 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 30 Sept. 739/1 Lookout Moon Pie.
1986 E. M. Mickler White Trash Cooking (verso front cover) Have yourself a moon pie and a Nehi grape.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 696/1 The Moon Pie, long marketed as ‘the original marshmallow sandwich’, had humble origins at the Chattanooga Bakery in Chattanooga, Tenn. Although its precise origin is not known, the Moon Pie is believed to have been created in 1918 or 1919.
1990 Mirabella May 156/2 An insect the size of a Moon Pie.
moon-plant n. the soma plant (see soma n.1 2).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding intoxicating drink > [noun] > soma plant
soma plant1785
moon-plant1798
hom1855
haoma1890
1798 H. Colebrooke in Asiatick Researches 5 363 One, who has drunk spirituous liquors, should traverse water up to his throat, and drink as much expressed juice of the moon plant, as he can take up in the hollow of both hands.
1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 475 The soma or moon-plant is a round smooth twining plant, peculiar to the Aravalli Hills [etc.].
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 205/2 The soma, an intoxicating drink prepared from the juice of the Asclepias acida, a kind of milk-weed, (sometimes called the moon-plant).
1978 Current Anthropol. 19 549/2 The intoxicant called soma, probably a hallucinogen extracted from an agaric, is a weakness of all the Vedic deities, who delight in this so-called moon-plant juice.
moon pool n. a shaft open to the sea in the centre of a ship (esp. an oil-drilling ship), through which equipment can be hoisted.
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1971 Sci. Year 125 They then began lowering the entire assembly through a shaft, called the ‘moon pool’, in the center of the vessel under the derrick.
1981 ‘D. Rutherford’ Porcupine Basin ii. 30 It was named moon-pool because on calm nights the water under a rig could reflect the moonlight and give the impression of a calm swimming pool.
1994 Guardian 30 Sept. i. 14/6 The diving operation on the Estonia will involve a special support vessel which can maintain a precise position above the wreck while divers are lowered in a diving bell through a ‘moonpool’ in the hull, open to the sea beneath.
moonport n. [after airport n.2] (a) a place from which rockets are launched to the moon; (b) a landing place for rockets on the moon.
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > a space shot or flight > launching of spacecraft > place where spacecraft are launched
space port1930
cosmodrome1953
moonport1963
1963 New Scientist 18 Apr. 138/3 NASA has acquired 87,000 acres just north of Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the site for its ‘Moonport’.
1965 New Statesman 16 July 74/1 To have two Moonports is extravagance enough.
1978 C. D. Benson & W. B. Flaherty (title) Moonport: a history of the Apollo launch facilities and operations.
moon probe n. Astronautics an exploratory space flight made to the moon by an unmanned vehicle; (also) the vehicle itself.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > laboratories and observatories
space probe1949
space observatory1952
probe1953
space laboratory1954
space lab1955
moon probe1958
fly-by1960
Skylab1969
society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > a space shot or flight > to the moon > unmanned
moon probe1958
1958 Oxf. Mail 16 Aug. 1/8 Engineers are making final checks on the multiple rocket which is expected to be launched tomorrow on America's first ‘Moon probe’.
1972 Guardian 22 Feb. 2/4 The unmanned Soviet moon probe Luna 20 made a soft landing on the moon's surface last night.
1985 R. Carver Fires 179 Soon after the moon probes,..Ross's drinking increased.
† moon-proof adj. Obsolete unaffected by the moon's light or influence.
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1616 B. Jonson Oberon 240 in Wks. I Be your eyes, yet, Moone-proofe?
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. xxvii. 141 A hanging dome of leaves, a canopy moon-proof.
1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. vi. 98 Your thick skull is moon-proof.
1878 W. J. A. Stamer Dolce Napoli xii. 221 I assured her that we English were moon-proof, and did not suffer from being exposed to her rays.
1914 Forest & Stream 3 Jan. 15/3 A few more discoveries of this nature, and fishermen will begin to exercise their inventive genius with a view toward producing ‘moon-proof receptacles’, for containing fish.
moon race n. now historical the competition between nations to be the first to land on the moon.
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > programme of space exploration > competition between nations > competition for first landing on the moon
moon race1963
1963 Guardian 17 July 1/5 It is now intended to have the whole question of the ‘moon race’ brought up in the International Astronomical Union.
1971 S. Cavell World Viewed 63 We lash ourselves to these ideas with burning coils of containment, massive retaliation, moon races, yellow perils.
moon rainbow n. = moonbow n.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > light of moon > [noun] > rainbow
lunar rainbow1712
moon rainbow1850
moonbow1871
1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve vi. 23 'Twas a moon-rainbow, vast and perfect.
1996 SkyNews Mar. 6/3 Moon rainbows, sometimes called moonbows, are produced in exactly the same way as normal rainbows.
moon rat n. [after Malay tikus bulan] a gymnure; esp. Echinosorex gymnurus of the Malaysian peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo, which is blackish with white markings.
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1897 Science Apr. 640/2 The Malays, because of its nocturnal habits and appearance, call it tikus bulan, which means moon-rat.]
1953 Fieldiana: Zool. 35 11 The gymnure, variously called the ‘white shrew’, ‘moon rat’, or Ticus bulan (Malay).
1990 tr. B. Grzimek Encycl. Mammals II. 448 The moon rat, or gymnure, is among the largest of all living insectivores, while the lesser moon rat is barely as large as a mole.
moon rocket n. (a) a rocket designed for flight to the moon; (b) a funfair ride consisting of rocket-shaped cars which travel round an inclined circular track.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > rocket > [noun]
rocket1919
moon rocket1921
space rocket1928
space gun1929
step rocket1932
ion rocket1936
photon rocket1949
rockoon1953
space launcher1955
launcher1958
cosmic rocket1959
ullage rocket1961
society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > roller coaster or railway
montagne russe1834
mountain railway1851
switchback1863
rollercoaster1883
scenic railway1890
chute1908
coaster1910
moon rocket1921
motor-coaster1928
giant racer1934
Big Dipper1935
scenic1956
1921 Sci. Amer. 26 Feb. 166 That Moon Rocket Proposition.
1946 G. Tyrwhitt-Drake Eng. Circus & Fair Ground xvii. 202 There were many..rides, such as Airways, Autodrome Aeroplanes, and Moon Rocket.
1954 ‘R. Crompton’ William & Moon Rocket i. 20 A fair ain't a fair these days without a Moon Rocket.
1981 A. Dula Last Word in O. Davis Omni Bk. of Space 395 A pumpable liquid at moderate temperatures that could produce about the same thrust as the hydrocarbon fuel used by our Saturn 5 moon rockets.
moon roof n. a clear panel which can be opened in the roof of a car; cf. sunshine roof n. at sunshine n. and adj. Compounds 3.
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1976 Honolulu Star-Bull. 21 Dec. F-9/2 (advt.) '75 Mark 1V. Silver gray. Moon roof. All Extras.
1995 Clothes Show Mag. Feb. 22/2 Their stretch Cadillac..costs £25–30 per hour to hire. For that you get TV and vid, crystal glasses, champagne, privacy partition, cellular phone, tinted windows, mood lighting and moon-roof (as opposed to sun-roof!).
moon rover n. = moon buggy n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > car for use on moon
moon-car1957
moon rover1961
moon crawler1962
scooter1963
moon buggy1971
1961 Time 20 Oct. 61/2 RCA showed a six-legged job that walks cautiously on circular rubber feet,..and a moon rover that creeps like a centipede.
2007 D. Jefferis & M. Irvine Return to Moon 12 (caption) The Lunokhod 1 robot Moon rover was launched in 1970 by the Soviet Union.
moonsail n. Nautical a small sail sometimes carried above a skysail.
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1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 116 Moon-sail, a small sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail.
1978 J. E. Gordon Structures xi. 227 The even loftier skysails and moonsails came much later, an affectation of the clipper era.
moonshaft n. a ray of moonlight, a moonbeam.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > moonlight > ray of
moonbeam1535
moonshaft1896
1896 E. Phillpotts Down Dartmoor Way 201 They turned intu the black wudes all laced wi' mune-shafts.
1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xxi. 98 Yellow wing, pale in the moon shaft.
1988 J. Merrill Inner Room v. 89 Cataract and moonshaft, peaks of sheer fire at dawn, dung-dusted violets.
moon-sheered adj. Nautical rare designating a ship whose superstructure is built up very high fore and aft.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Moon-sheered, a ship the upper works of which rise very high, fore and aft.
1935 Scribner's Mag. July 120/2 Looking at the sharply beautiful bows of a clipper they remembered the crescent of a new moon, and said: ‘She is moon-sheered.’
moon shell n. = moon snail n.; (also) the shell of this snail.
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1923 Sci. Monthly June 613 Auger shell (Tenebra), moon shell (Natica).
1952 P. A. Morris Shells Pacific Coast 94 Family Naticidae... Commonly known as ‘moon shells’. These are carnivorous snails, found in all seas.
1955 A. M. Lindbergh Gift from Sea i. 17 One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on the smooth white sand of the conscious mind... Perhaps a channelled whelk, a moon shell, or even an argonaut.
1990 Connecticut Environment July 18/3 The northern moon shell (Lunatia heros) is a large snail that can be up to four inches across.
moon-ship n. (a) poetic the moon considered as or likened to a ship (rare); (b) a spacecraft bound for the moon.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > to go to the moon
moon-ship1832
mooncraft1958
lunik1959
1832 W. Motherwell Poems 63 Stars whirl fast around..Yon moon-ship scuds before the breeze.
1931 Wonder Stories Feb. 958 The Murders on the Moon-Ship.
1963 Wall St. Jrnl. 19 Aug. North American Aviation awarded $934.4 million job... Order is for Apollo Moonship.
1970 Universe 30 Jan. 9/5 The horror of some future manned moonship being marooned in space is something we don't like to think about.
moon-shoot n. rare = moonshot n.1
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > a space shot or flight > to the moon
moon-flight1931
moonshot1949
moon-shoot1958
1958 Oxf. Mail 14 Aug. 1/9 The United States first ‘moon-shoot’ has about a one-in-ten chance of success.
moon-shooter n. rare (a) slang a person who does a moonlight flit; (b) an astronaut who travels to the moon.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > one who moves house without paying rent
moon-shooter1892
1892 Globe 2 Apr. 1/5 The moon-shooters sometimes have lodgers in their abodes.
1986 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Apr. 12/4 He floated to what economists and moon-shooters call a soft landing.
† moon-shot adj. Obsolete rare illuminated by moonlight, esp. fitfully.
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1873 E. Gosse On Viol & Flute 3 I haul the moon-shot fishes from the sea.
1902 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 842 The gusty moon-shot night.
† moon-slave n. poetic Obsolete rare the tide (as being dependent on the moon).
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1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 89 Where tide, the moonslave, sleeps.
† moon's man n. (a) a man who is under the moon's influence (obsolete); (b) = moonman n. 2 (obsolete).
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > changeable person or thing
weathercocka1300
wind?a1513
Proteus1528
chameleon1586
moon's man1598
vane1598
mooncalf1607
remover1609
tarand1641
inconstant1647
mutables1652
changeablea1711
kaleidoscope1819
phantasmagoria1822
palimpsest1845
variable1846
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 31 The fortune of vs that are the moones men, doth ebbe and flow like the sea. View more context for this quotation
1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 237 To what cause our mutability..may be referred, I know not, vnlesse that we..are Lunares or the Moones men.
1907 Daily Tel. 2 Apr. 13/4 A man..attempting to pick the pockets of omnibus passengers..described himself as a ‘crumpsman’ or ‘moonsman’.
† moon's minion n. poetic Obsolete a nightwatchman.
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1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xii. 107 In an instant two of the moon's minions, staffs, lanthorns, and all, were measuring their length at the foot of their namesake of royal memory.
moon snail n. a carnivorous marine snail of the family Naticidae, having a glossy shell.
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1892 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation (new ed.) II. xxii. 209 (table) Neomenida... Moon-snails.
1968 J. Hay Sandy Shore v. 24 A moon snail grips its food, such as a clam, with this great foot and bores a counter-sunk hole in the shell with its radula.
1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans xv. 484 The moon snail is a clam eater that drills a hole in the shell of its prey and then sucks out the flesh.
† moon-sted adj. Obsolete rare (perhaps) occupied by the moon.
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1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn ii. sig. B Could I..Remoue the Sunne from our Meridian, Unto the moonsted circle of th' antipodes.
moon suit n. a spacesuit as worn by astronauts on the moon; also in extended use.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > one-piece garment > [noun]
playsuit1609
romper1902
romper suit1904
diving-suit1908
bunting1914
teddy bear1917
leotard1920
Sidcot1921
sleeper1921
romper1922
pressure suit1923
boiler suit1928
maillot1928
mono1937
footy1938
all-in-one1939
siren suit1939
goonskin1943
anti-g suit1945
G-suit1945
jump suit1948
immersion suit1951
moon suit1953
poopy suit1953
dry suit1955
wetsuit1955
sleepsuit1958
Babygro1959
tank suit1959
cat-suit1960
penguin suit1961
unitard1961
bodysuit1963
shortall1966
steamer1982
1953 F. Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth Space Merchants (1955) xii. 131 Moon suits rented ‘50 Years Without a Blowout’.
1992 N.Y. Times 5 May b6/6 Send people in moon suits to spray the entire landscape with lethal insecticides.
moon-tide n. (a) poetic the time when the moon is illuminated, night-time; (b) a tide caused by the gravitational pull of the moon on the sea.
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1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 282 In rushes folly with a full-moon tide.]
1802 Americana ii. 39 My once lov'd moon-tide shade.
1826 A. W. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville 179 Those were her shady halls at high moon-tide.
1880 Philos. Trans. 1879 (Royal Soc.) 170 465 It is not at first sight obvious how it is physically possible that the sun should exercise an influence on the moon-tide, and the moon on the sun-tide, so as..to cause tidal friction.
1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans ix. 291 The crest, or bulge, of the moon tide is at right angles to the tide wave created by the sun.
moon trefoil n. (originally) any of several medick plants; (now) spec. the tree medick, Medicago arborea.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > tree-trefoil
tree-trefoil1552
pretiefollie1591
milk trefoil1597
shrub trefoil1597
tetrifolie1601
moon trefoil1659
tree medick1884
1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 472 at Trefoile The moon, lyquorice, prickly, and strawberry trefoile.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Medicago Moon-Trefoil..hath [a] Fruit, shap'd somewhat like a Half-Moon.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. II. 92 The Moon Trefoil, or Tree Trefoil (Medicago arborea).
1994 M. Griffiths Index Garden Plants 735/2 M. arborea L., Moon Trefoil.
† moon-wise adj. Obsolete rare knowledgeable about the moon, its movements, etc.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > astronomy > planetology > [adjective] > moon
moon-wise1582
selenographical1670
selenographic1675
selenotopographic1792
selenotopo'graphical1792
selenological1865
selenodetic1962
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 48 And moonewise Coribants on brasse their od harmonye tinckling.
† moon-wiser n. Obsolete rare an instrument for finding the position of the moon.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > sun and moon > [noun] > moon
moon-wiser1675
1675 Philos. Trans. 1674 (Royal Soc.) 9 219 I fell to peruse Mr. Street's Discourse, and to consider the Contrivance of his Moon-wiser.
† moon-work n. Obsolete rare work done by moonlight or at night.
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1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 201 His work is Idolatry, a work of darkness, moon or night-work.
moon-year n. [compare German Mondjahr (1680)] rare a lunar year.
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1854 H. Mayhew Story Peasant-boy Philosopher viii. 232 There a moon-year as well as a sun and star-year... The lunar or moon-year is made to consist of 12 months or lunations, as they are called.
1910 Man 10 30 The most usual..explanation is that these trieteric festivals depend on the adjustment of the moon-year and the sun-year.
1932 tr. Geminus Elementae Astronomiae in T. L. Heath Greek Astron. 136 The moon-year and the solar year are different things, as the solar year is the time of the sun's revolution through 12 signs, that is, 365¼ days, while the moon-yearcontains 12 lunar months, that is 354 days.
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Moonn.2

Brit. /muːn/, U.S. /mun/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Moon.
Etymology: < the name of Dr William Moon (1818–94), of Brighton, England, who invented the system in 1845.
I. Compounds.
1. attributive and in the genitive. Used with reference to a system of embossed type invented by Moon, designed for reading by blind and partially sighted people.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > for blind readership
Braille1853
Moon1859
Moon1959
1859 3rd Rep. Soc. of Supplying Bks. in Moon's Type 7 The plan of teaching the Blind..to read by Books embossed in Moon's type has been tested.
1859 M. Fison Darkness & Light 19 Moon's System of Embossed Books... Moon's Alphabet consists of the common letters simplified, and therefore is easily learnt... By Moon's method of Stereotyping, the letters are thrown up with such sharpness and prominence, as to be felt even by fingers become dull through age.
1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 63/1 A society was instituted in 1847 by Dr. W. Moon for stereotyping and embossing the Scriptures and other books in ‘Moon’ type.
1973 Times 28 Feb. (Victoria Centre, Nottingham, Suppl.) p. ii/1 (advt.) [Blind people] may prefer to develop a particular handcraft as a hobby, or to concentrate on mobility, braille, Moon type reading, typing.
1977 Evening Post (Nottingham) 27 Jan. 6/5 An organisation which provides Christian literature for blind and partially blind people in Braille, the Moon system and large print, is holding an interdenominational rally in Nottingham.
II. Simple uses.
2. Moon type; the system of reading based on this.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > for blind readership
Braille1853
Moon1859
Moon1959
1959 Listener 14 May 868/3 Books in Braille and Moon.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Dec. 1511/4 (advt.) Books in Braille and Moon that are specially prepared for the Blind of all ages.
1992 Independent 18 Aug. 11/7 Learning braille is often beyond them, but another reading system, Moon, may offer a suitable alternative.
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Moonn.3

Brit. /muːn/, U.S. /mun/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Moon.
Etymology: < the name of Henry Moon (1845–92), English surgeon, who described the feature in 1877 ( Monthly Rev. Dental Surg. 6 18).
Medicine and Dentistry.
In the genitive and attributive. Designating a small, malformed first molar with a dome-shaped crown, seen in congenital syphilis; esp. in Moon's molar. Cf. mulberry molar n. at mulberry n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [noun] > disorders of teeth
scale1594
caries1634
tartar1806
odontolith1848
malocclusion1864
pulpitis1869
odontome1870
pericementitis1882
cementoma1893
open bite1893
plaque1898
super-eruption1912
mulberry molar1917
Moon1918
retroclusion1928
bruxism1932
overclosure1934
overeruption1961
1918 L. W. Harrison Diagnosis & Treatm. Venereal Dis. ix. 148 Moon's teeth are dome-shaped first molars, the central part of the crown having failed to develop and the sides having fallen together. They are diagnostic of congenital syphilis.
1927 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 20 1537 The association of Hutchinsonian incisors with Moon's molars forms a sign which is pathognomonic of congenital syphilis.
1942 Amer. Jrnl. Dis. Children 64 785 The Hutchinson incisor or Moon molar was not demonstrated without the presence of congenital syphilis.
1954 D. Nabarro Congenital Syphilis vii. 145 Morton Smith..used the term ‘mulberry’ molar, apparently for the first time, for the type of Moon's molar whose crown consists of a number of diminutive tubercles or cusps, composed of imperfect or inadequately-calcified dentine and enamel.
1987 R. Hurley in D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. xi. 48/2 The permanent dentition may be deformed, with Hutchinson's teeth and Moon's molars.
1998 Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 107 25 This article..discusses the form of the dental defects which they show (Hutchinson's incisors, Moon's molars, and mulberry molars) in relation to the developmental sequence of the teeth.
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moonv.

Brit. /muːn/, U.S. /mun/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: moon n.1
Etymology: < moon n.1; in sense 1 after sun v. With sense 3 compare slightly later moonlight v.
†1.
a. transitive. To expose to moonlight; to give out (light) like the moon; (reflexive) to bask in moonlight. Obsolete.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 96 If they would haue it [sc. wax] to be exceeding white indeed, they seeth it yet once more, after it hath bin thus sunned and mooned.
1838 E. B. Barrett Seraphim & Other Poems 232 Where be all thy laughters clear..Where thy buxom companies, Moonëd o'er with ladies' eyes..?
1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 461/2 The huge man..not sunning but mooning himself—apricating himself in the occasional moonbeams.
1871 G. Macdonald Wks. Fancy & Imagination IV. 65 An earthen lamp..whose faint light Mooned out a tiny halo.
b. intransitive. Of the moon: to shine. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > matter > light > shine [verb (intransitive)]
shinec725
brighteOE
blika1000
lightOE
shimmera1100
starec1225
lightena1382
blikena1400
glowa1400
sheenc1420
flourish1587
to stick off1604
lamp1609
skyre1677
gloze1820
moon1885
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. IV. cccxxviii. 231 White as a full moon when it mooneth on its fourteenth night.
2. colloquial.
a. intransitive. To move or behave listlessly or aimlessly. Frequently with about, along, around.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > be listless or lethargic [verb (intransitive)]
slumberc1380
dream1548
vegetate1740
moon1763
stagnate1774
maunder1775
Dianize1834
veg1979
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > wander in thought [verb (intransitive)] > proceed aimlessly
ramblec1443
mope1568
niff-naff1728
moon1763
1763 T. Twining Let. 23 July (1991) I. 35 If you chuse to moon further, by talking with a grave face of things you know nothing of, [etc.].
1837 J. G. Milligan in Bentley's Misc. May 443 Mooning about the streets at night.
1848 A. Smith Idler upon Town 46 A mooner is an individual who moons about without any object, half absent, half contemplative.
1867 M. E. Braddon Run to Earth I. ii. 40 ‘What are you standing mooning there for?’ asked the man. ‘Why don't you go to bed?’
1902 J. Milne Epist. Atkins iii. 48 They ‘moon’ along as if they were going to have a drink.
a1903 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Tomaso's Fortune (1904) 64 The more curious of the President's guests, who were now mooning innocently around them as they sat.
1970 W. Meredith Earth Walk 4 Leaving the door to creak on the other runaway children, You moon down to the water's edge in orange and yellow.
1997 M. Keyes Rachel's Holiday xx. 165 I mooned around, killing time until three o'clock, trying to radiate orphanhood.
†b. transitive. To pass away (time) in an aimless or listless manner. Also: to utter dreamily (in quot. 1836 with clause as object). Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > pass (time) listlessly or lethargically [verb (transitive)]
languisha1616
yawn1742
daidle1808
moon1876
1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. iii. 179 I ‘mooned’ out, that my sympathetic ignorance of the object of our dialogue had wounded her feelings.
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. iii. 53 I might have mooned away the afternoon in the Park.
1878 W. C. Smith Hilda (1879) 235 Why had I mooned away the night, when there was that to do Which still might heal our sorrow?
c. intransitive. To daydream; to indulge in sentimental reverie; to gaze adoringly; to behave as if besotted.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [verb (intransitive)]
sentimentize1753
sentimentalize1788
moon1878
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze > adoringly
moon1878
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn [verb (intransitive)] > pine
honea1400
languor1526
pine1569
to eat one's (own) heart1590
sicken1802
moon1878
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [verb (intransitive)] > yearn sentimentally (over)
moon1949
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native vi. i, in Belgravia Dec. 241 To think that a man should be so silly as to go mooning about like that for a girl's glove.
1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career vii. 51 It was daily dinned into my ears that the little things of life were the noblest, and that all the great people I mooned about said the same.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 151 It's no good mooning for sloppy ease When they're holding out the thunderbolt For you to take.
1949 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 19 May 11/8 There aren't any pictures of muscular pin-up boys to moon over.
1968 T. Roethke Coll. Poems 24 Boys moon at girls with last year's fatuous faces.
1971 ‘A. Burgess’ MF xvi. 177 She was merely kindly leaving an engaged couple to kiss and cuddle and moon about sunnier delights to come.
1997 G. Glazner Singularity 55 They prepare to drown us with regret. All there is to do is suffer them, Mooning for the residue of youth.
3. transitive. Chiefly Australian. To hunt (an animal) by moonlight.
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1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist 232 In order to find the animals, the sportsman places himself so as to get successive portions of the tree between his eye and the moonlight... This is called ‘mooning’ the opossums.
1886 D. M. Gane New S. Wales & Victoria 177 It is necessary to ‘moon them’, as the bushmen say, that is, to get them in a line with the moon.
1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 64 All the excitement of the expedition may be said..to lie in this ‘mooning’. If the dark object which the hunter fondly imagines to be an opossum lie higher than the line of the moon, he must perforce fix his eyes on it and walk steadily backwards until the moon is directly behind it... The beast can obviously be mooned from one spot only at any given moment.
1906 Steele Rudd's Mag. (Brisbane) Mar. 179 He started to re-load under the tree while I mooned the 'possum.
1965 Bulletin (Sydney) 9 Jan. 30/2 You..had a whale of a time ‘mooning’ possums and wild cats.
4. slang.
a. transitive. To expose one's buttocks to (a person, etc.).
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > make indecent or obscene [verb (transitive)] > indecent exposure
smut1722
flash1846
moon1964
dropa1967
1964 Princeton Alumni Weekly 7 July 34/3 All we had was..abortive efforts at mooning the Yale team in their dugout.
1971 National Lampoon Nov. 21 Have a few ‘brews’, gross out some chicks, ‘moon’ a townie.
1989 M. Moffatt Coming of Age in New Jersey iii. 135 For a climax, Dan had whipped around, bent over, and mooned the crowd.
1992 Herald (Glasgow) 16 Nov. (Sport Suppl.) 15/6 A man who threatened to moon him over his fax machine. ‘He threatened to fax me his butt,’ said Simpson.
2000 Weekly World News 27 June 31/1 While his friends waited in the car, fun-loving Jason dropped his drawers and mooned them just for laughs.
b. intransitive. To expose one's buttocks, esp. as a gesture intended to insult or shock. Cf. moon n.1 14.
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1965 N. J. Eaton Stud.Current Adolescent Slang (M.A. thesis, Univ. Massachusetts–Amherst) iii. 36 Gloss. Moon,..to expose the buttocks. syn. Throw a moon.
1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 i. 9 Moon, to display one's bare buttocks as a taunt.
1989 Looks Dec. 44/3 Helen told us ‘I felt as though I was mooning every time I sat down!’
1994 Guardian 29 July ii. 9/4 The crew of a hovering American helicopter removed their trousers and mooned at the Russians.
2009 P. Rex 1066 viii. 118 At one point during the siege one of the defending soldiers ‘mooned’ at the Norman attackers, dropping his trousers and baring his buttocks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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