Definitions for: Moon


[n] any natural satellite of a planet; "Jupiter has sixteen moons"
[n] the natural satellite of the Earth; "the average distance to the moon is 384,400 kilometers"; "men first stepped on the moon in 1969"
[n] any object resembling a moon; "he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light"; "the clock had a moon that showed various phases"
[n] the light of the moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the moon was bright enough to read by"
[n] the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
[v] expose one's buttocks to; "moon the audience"
[v] be idle in a listless or dreamy way
[v] have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming"



Webster (1913) Definition: Moon, n. [OE. mone, AS. m[=o]na; akin to D. maan, OS. &
OHG. m[=a]no, G. mond, Icel. m[=a]ni, Dan. maane, Sw.
m[*a]ne, Goth. m[=e]na, Lith. men?, L. mensis month, Gr. ?
moon, ? month, Skr. m[=a]s moon, month; prob. from a root
meaning to measure (cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure), from its
serving to measure the time. [root]271. Cf. Mete to
measure, Menses, Monday, Month.]
1. 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.

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 ({Medicago
arborea}). See Medic.

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


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, 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.

Synonyms: daydream, lunar month, lunation, moon around, moon on, moonlight, moonshine, synodic month

See Also: display, exhibit, expose, idle, laze, light, lunar year, month, moonbeam, moonray, object, physical object, satellite, slug, stagnate, visible light, visible radiation

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