noun. The natural satellite of Earth, visible by reflection of sunlight and having a slightly elliptical orbit, approximately 356,000 kilometers (221,600 miles) distant at perigee and 406,997 kilometers (252,950 miles) at apogee. Its mean diameter is 3,475 kilometers (2,160 miles), its mass approximately one eightieth that of Earth, and its average period of revolution around Earth 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes calculated with respect to the sun.

noun. A natural satellite revolving around a planet.

noun. The moon as it appears at a particular time in its cycle of phases.

noun. A month, especially a lunar month.

noun. A disk, globe, or crescent resembling the natural satellite of Earth.

noun. Moonlight.

noun. Something unreasonable or unattainable.

noun. The bared buttocks.

intransitive verb. To wander about or pass time languidly and aimlessly.

intransitive verb. To yearn or pine as if infatuated.

intransitive verb. To expose one's buttocks in public as a prank or disrespectful gesture.

intransitive verb. To expose one's buttocks to (others) as a prank or disrespectful gesture.

idiom. (over the moon) In a state of great happiness.

To adorn with a moon or moons; furnish with crescents or moon-shaped marks.

To expose to the rays of the moon.

To wander or gaze idly or moodily about, as if moonstruck.

In opposum-hunting, to locate (the hiding-place of the animal) by bringing the tree in which it is supposed to lurk into clear view between one's self and the moon.

To shave (skins) with a moon or moon-knife. See mooning, 1.

noun. An obsolete spelling of moan.

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noun. Moonlight.

noun. A heavenly body which revolves around the earth monthly, accompanying the earth as a satellite in its annual revolution, and shining by the sun's reflected light.

noun. A satellite of any planet: as, the moons of Jupiter; Uranian moons.

noun. The period of a synodical revolution of the moon round the earth; a month.

noun. Something in the shape of a moon, especially of a half-moon or crescent.

noun. In brickmaking, an implement of the nature of a slicebar, for slicing or loosening fires in the grates of brickkilns. It is somewhat longer than half the width of the kiln, and has a nearly circular blade perforated in the middle, which is shoved in on the top of the grate and under the fire, to clear out ashes and brighten up the fire.

noun. The golden-crested wren, Regulus cristatus. Also moonie, muin. See cut under goldcrest.

noun. The moon-daisy or moon-flower. Also moons

transitive verb. To expose to the rays of the moon.

transitive verb. To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); -- a vulgar sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank.

intransitive verb. To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.

noun. The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The 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.

noun. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system.

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

noun. A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

noun. The deliberately exposed naked buttocks.

noun. Hemeralopia.

noun. a dial used to indicate time by moonlight.

noun. a round face like a full moon.

noun. lunacy.

noun. a lunar month.

noun. a shrubby species of medic (Medicago arborea). See Medic.

noun. a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.

noun. see blue moon in the vocabulary.

noun. The largest satellite of Earth.

noun. Any natural satellite of a planet.

noun. A month, particularly a lunar month.

verb. To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest

verb. (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.

"Moon Dreams - The Americans may still go to the moon before the Chinese, The Economist"

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Bethune  Boone  Calhoun  June  Karun  

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April showers  Artemis  Ashtoreth  Astarte  Cynthia  

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