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The determination of the brightness of stars, and also of the sun, moon, and planets. --As`tro*pho`to*met"ric*al (#), a.

aily, 1774 -- 1844) is thought to be an effect of irradiation, and of inequalities of the moon's edge.

To howl at. [Obs.] The wolf behowls the moon. Shak.

Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak.

To mock; to ridicule. Bemock the modest moon. Shak.

Of a white or pale color; without color. To the blank moon Her office they prescribed. Milton.

To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.

Brightly. Chaucer. I say it is the moon that shines so bright. Shak.

A lantern; also, the moon. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

travel through, bushes. [U.S.] They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. W. Irving.

To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune. No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson.

art. "In one cantle of his law." Milton. Cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out. Shak.

To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.

titude at equal distances. -- Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon. -- Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.

rous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton.

One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter. [Obs.] Derham.

; luminous; unclouded. The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear. Denham. Fair as the moon, clear as the sun. Canticles vi. 10.

So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. [Obs.] Planets that are oft combust. Milton.

plement of a parallelogram. (Math.) See Gnomon. -- In her complement (Her.), said of the moon when represented as full.

i. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.