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he rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.

to render accomplished; to polish. The armorers accomplishing the knights. Shak. It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke.

h occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

us statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to marin…

clef, or the C clef, placed so that the two strokes include the middle line of the staff. Moore.

Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

h love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on. Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak.

ded or marked with circles. Annular eclipse (Astron.), an eclipse of the sun in which the moon at the middle of the eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border.

Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.

That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.

f being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view. The moon . . . apparent queen. Milton.

To ply; to move. [R.] I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water. T. Moore.

ly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

esponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose.

s raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; - - opposed to thesis. Moore.