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Irradiating or illuminating; as, the irradiant moon. Boyse.

tten also kike, keke.] This Nicholas sat ever gaping upright, As he had kyked on the newe moon. Chaucer.

the time of high water falls behind the mean time, in the first and third quarters of the moon; -- opposed to priming of the tide, or the acceleration of the time of high water, in the second and fourth quarters; depending on the relative positions of the sun and moon. -- Lag screw, an iron bolt with a square head, a…

r indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day. Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. Keats. Their idleness, aimless and languid airs. W. Black.

apparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest. Libration of the moon, any one of those small periodical changes in the position of the moon's surface relatively to the earth, in consequence of which narrow portions at opposite limbs become visible or invisible alternately. It receives differen…

those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.

See Moonfish (b).

as, to speak low. Addison. The . . . odorous wind Breathes low between the sunset and the moon. Tennyson.

The moon.

roken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.

An inhabitant of the moon.

The herb moonwort or "honesty".

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.]