moon /moon/

1. (often with cap) the earth's natural satellite, illuminated to varying degrees by the sun depending on its position
2. Its appearance to an observer on earth, in respect of its degree of illumination (full moon, half moon, etc)
3. A natural satellite of any planet
4. A month (literary)
5. Anything in the shape of a moon or crescent
6. A crescent-shaped outwork (fortification)

To decorate with moons or crescents

1. To wander about listlessly or gaze vacantly at anything (usu with around or about)
2. To present one's bare buttocks to public view, esp through a vehicle window (slang)

mooned adjective

Marked with the figure of a moon

moonˈer noun

A person who moons or moons about

moonˈish adjective

1. Like the moon
2. Variable
3. Inconstant

moonˈless adjective

1. Without moonlight
2. (of a planet) having no moon

moonˈlet noun

A small planetary satellite, whether natural or man-made

moonˈy adjective

1. Of or relating to the moon
2. Moon-like
3. Crescent-shaped
4. Bearing a crescent
5. Round and shining
6. Moonlit
7. Inclined to moon, dreamy
8. Fatuous
9. Tipsy (slang)

A noodle

moonˈ-ball noun (tennis)

A high arcing shot

intransitive verb

To hit such a shot

moonˈbeam noun

A ray of sunlight reflected from the moon

moonˈblind adjective

1. Affected with mooneye
2. Blinded by the moon
3. Nightblind
4. Dim-sighted, purblind (now dialect)

moon blindness noun

1. Nyctalopia
2. Mooneye (see below)

moon boot noun

A bulky padded boot with a quilted fabric covering, for wearing in snow, reminiscent of an astronaut's boot

moonˈbow noun

A rainbow cast by the moon

moonˈcake noun

A round cake with a lotus seed or sweet bean paste filling, orig eaten as part of the Chinese moon festival

moonˈcalf noun

1. A false conception or fleshy mass formed in the womb
2. A monster (obsolete)
3. A deformed creature (obsolete)
4. A dolt, fool

moon daisy noun

The ox-eye daisy

moonˈeye noun

1. A disease affecting horses' eyes
2. A N American freshwater shad-like fish of the genus Hiodon, esp H. tergisus

moonˈ-eyed adjective

1. Affected with mooneye, moonblind
2. Round- or wide-eyed
3. Drunk (US sl)

moonˈface noun

A full, round face

moonˈ-faced adjective

moonˈfish noun

The opah or other silvery disc-shaped fish

moon flask noun

A type of Chinese porcelain vase with a wide, circular body and a short, narrow neck

moonˈflower noun

1. The ox-eye daisy
2. A night-blooming plant of the Convolvulaceae, Calonyction aculeatum, or any of several related plants

moon gate noun

A circular opening in a wall serving as a gateway, esp in Chinese architecture

moonˈ-glade noun

The track of moonlight on water

moon god or moon goddess noun

A god or goddess representing or associated with the moon

moon knife noun

A leather-worker's crescent-shaped knife

moonˈlight noun

1. The light of the moon, sunlight reflected from the moon's surface
2. Smuggled alcoholic spirit

adjective

1. Lit by the moon
2. Occurring in moonlight

intransitive verb

To work outside one's normal working hours, esp when the income from this is not declared for tax assessment

moonˈlighter noun

1. A person who moonlights
2. In Ireland about 1800, a person who committed violent offences against farmers and farms, in protest against the introduction of the land-tenure system (historical)
3. A moonshiner

moonlight flit or moonlight flitting noun

A hasty removal by night, esp without paying due rent

moonˈlighting noun

moonˈlit adjective

Lit or illumined by the moon

moonˈ-loved adjective (poetic)

Loved by the moon

moonˈ-madness noun (archaic)

Lunacy, once thought to be connected with the moon's changes

moonˈphase noun

The current phase of the moon, as indicated eg on a watch or calendar

moon pool noun (oil)

The open shaft let through the hull of a deep-sea drilling vessel to accommodate the vertical pipe-line connected to the oil-well

moonˈquake noun

A tremor of the moon's surface

moonˈ-raised adjective (Walter Scott)

Excited or maddened by the moon

moonˈraker noun

1. A moonsail
2. A Wiltshireman

moonˈraking noun

The following of crazy fancies

moon rat noun

A ratlike nocturnal mammal of SE Asia (Echinosorex gymnurus)

moonˈrise noun

The rising of the moon, or the time when this occurs

moonˈrock noun

1. Rock from the moon's surface
2. A synthetic narcotic drug combining heroin and crack (slang)

moonˈroof noun

A transparent roof section on a motor vehicle, usu opening or removable, a sunroof

moonˈsail noun

A small sail, sometimes carried above the sky-scraper

moonˈscape noun

1. The physical appearance of the surface of the moon, or a representation of it
2. A desolate landscape resembling this (figurative)

moonˈseed noun

A plant (genus Menispermum) with lunate seeds

• illegitimate recombinations
• illegitimates
• illegitimating
• illegitimation
• illegitimations
• ill-equipped
• ill-faced
• ill fame
• ill-faste
• ill-fated
• ill-faurd
• ill-favoured
• ill-favouredly
• ill-favouredness
• ill feeling
• ill fortune
• ill-founded
• ill-got
• ill-gotten
• ill-haired
• ill-headed
• ill-headed Spenser ill-hedded
• ill health
• ill-humour
• ill-humoured