moonbeamn.

1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) xi. v. f. clvii/1 And for the reyne bowe is not seen but by the sonne beame by day, or by the mone beame by nyght.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 165 And pluck the wings, from painted Butterflies, To fanne the Moone-beames from his sleeping eyes. View more context for this quotation

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §113 As the Moone-Beames playing vpon a Waue.

1738 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. vi. 189 Tell how the Moon-beam trembling falls And tips with silver all the walls.

1793 S. T. Coleridge Imit. Ossian 19 But I..shall..dwell, the Moon-beam of thy soul, In Slumber's nightly hour.

1817 C. Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore in Edinb. Monthly Mag. June 278/1 By the struggling moon-beam's misty light.

1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. ii. v. 293 The house was encrusted with heavy thatchings..; the front, on which the moonbeams directly played, had originally been white.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage cvi. 560 A fantastic legerdemain in which appearances were interwoven with moonbeams.

1989 Newsweek 4 Sept. 52/1 All the astonishing data arrived as if on the faintest of moonbeams, a radio signal so weak..that it took 38 giant radio antennas..to catch [the] message.