Moon
Moon (mon) , noun
[Old English mone, Anglo-Saxon mōna; akin to Dutch maan, Old Saxon & Old High German māno, German mond, Icelandic māni, Danish maane, Swedish måne, Gothic mēna, Lithuanian menů, Latin mensis month, Greek mh`nh moon, mh`n month, Sanskrit mās moon, month; prob. from a root meaning to measure (compare Sanskrit mā to measure), from its serving to measure the time. r271. Compare 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.
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; as, it's been many moons since I last visited Washington. — Shakespeare
4.
(Fortification) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
5.
The deliberately exposed naked buttocks. [slang]
Collocations (9)
Moon blindness (Farriery) , A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks 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 year , a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.
blue moon , see blue moon in the vocabulary.
many moons , a long time.
Moon , transitive verb
1.
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.
2.
To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); -- a vulgar sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank.
Moon , intransitive verb
To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
Elsley was mooning down the river by himself.