Chapter Monster to Moon-culminating of M by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.

The crescent moon, the diadem of night.

Cowper.

2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month. Shak.

4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

Moon blindness. (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia. — Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight. — Moon face, a round face like a full moon. — Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic] — Moon month, a lunar month. — Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic See Medic. — Moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.

Moon
(Moon), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooning.] To expose to the rays of the moon.

If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned.

Holland.

Moon
(Moon), v. i. To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.

Elsley was mooning down the river by himself.

C. Kingsley.

Moonbeam
(Moon"beam`) n. A ray of light from the moon.

Moonblind
(Moon"blind`) a. Dim-sighted; purblind.

Moonblink
(Moon"blink`) n. A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; — sometimes called nyctalopia.

Mooncalf
(Moon"calf`) n.

1. A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.

2. A dolt; a stupid fellow. Dryden.

Moon-culminating
(Moon"-cul"mi*na`ting) a. Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; — said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.