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- English Word Moonlight Definition Occurring during or by moonlight; characterized by moonlight.
- English Word Moonling Definition A simpleton; a lunatic.
- English Word Moonlit Definition Illumined by the moon.
- English Word Moonraker Definition Same as Moonsail.
- English Word Moonrise Definition The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.
- English Word Moonsail Definition A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail.
- English Word Moonseed Definition A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
- English Word Moonset Definition The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.
- English Word Moonshee Definition A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language.
- English Word Moonshine Definition The light of the moon.
- English Word Moonshine Definition Hence, show without substance or reality.
- English Word Moonshine Definition A month.
- English Word Moonshine Definition A preparation of eggs for food.
- English Word Moonshine Definition Moonlight.
- English Word Moonshiner Definition A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
- English Word Moonshiny Definition Moonlight.
- English Word Moonsticken Definition See Moonstruck.
- English Word Moonstone Definition A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.
- English Word Moonstruck Definition Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
- English Word Moonstruck Definition Produced by the supposed influence of the moon.
- English Word Moonstruck Definition Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.
- English Word Moonwort Definition The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty.
- English Word Moonwort Definition Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.
- English Word Moony Definition Of or pertaining to the moon.
- English Word Moony Definition Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.
- English Word Moony Definition Silly; weakly sentimental.
- English Word Moor Definition One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
- English Word Moor Definition Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
- English Word Moor Definition An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
- English Word Moor Definition A game preserve consisting of moorland.