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Moon
MOON, n.
1. The heavenly orb which revolves round the earth; a secondary planet or satellite of the earth, whose borrowed light is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel the darkness of night. Its mean distance from the earth is 60 1/2 semidiameters of the earth, or 240,000 miles. Its revolution round the earth in 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, constitutes the lunar month.
2. A month. This is the sense in which rude nations use the name of the moon; as seven moons.
Half-moon, in fortification, a figure resembling a crescent.
MOON'-BEAM, n. A ray of light from the moon.
MOON'-CALF, n. A monster; a false conception.
1. A mole or mass of fleshy matter generated in the uterus.
2. A dolt; a stupid fellow.
moon appears in definitions for these words:
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Acceleration Almanack Apogee Attendant Below Blank Blot Calends Change Chart Chronology Circled Circuit Circumference Conjunction Consecution Corona Covert-way Creature Crescent Crotch Cusp Cycle Daylight Decrease Decrement Decrescent Dichotomy Digit Disastrous Disc Discus Disk Disobedience Dracontic Eclipse Emerge Emersion Emit Epact Falcate Full Full-orbed Generalize Gibbous Glory Golden Gregorian Half-moon Hallucination Halo Heaven Hide Horn Horned Horning Hourly Ibis Idolatry Immerge Immersed Immersion Increase Ingress Interlunar Interposition Labor Lamp Libration Light Limb Look Luminous Lunacy Lunar Lunary Lunatic Lunation Lune Lunet Luniform Lunisolar Lunistice Lunular Lunulate Melancholy Meniscus Menstrual Menstruum Metemptosis Meticulous Mew Month Monthly Moon Mooned Moonet Moonish Moonless Moonlight Moonloved Moonshine Moonshiny Moonstruck Moony Neap New Night Number Obscuration Obscure Observe Orbit Orient Osmund Pale Parallel Paraselene Partially Patroness Peragration Perigee Periodic Phasis Place Planet Plenilunary Plenilune Posture Prime Proemptosis Profound Quadrature Quarter Ragged Rainbow Ravelin Relieve Sabianism Satellite Sciagraphy Scruple Selenite Selenography Semilunar Sensible Sequel Serene Set Shadow Shine Sickly Silver Southing Spherical Spring-tide Starlight Sublunar Superlunar Syllable Synodic Take Triform Variation Visibly Volcano Votive Wane Wax
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