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The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29

Anything in the shape of a half moon. [R.]

A little moon or satellite. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases. Bache.

Resembling the moon in shape.

Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. Lunisolar precession (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. -- Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, t…

The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]

Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache. Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.

Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.

A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.

Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also loony.] [Law, U.S.]

the diamond. Sir T. More. The scorching sun was mounted high, In all its luster, to the noonday sky. Addison.

which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. Dryden. Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.

A kind of baboon; the wanderoo.

morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

See Macaroon, 2. [Obs.]

a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, or Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.

The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution. [Obs.] The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the moon. Chaucer. Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor. Blackstone.…

The raccoon.

See Maroon, the color.