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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.

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.…

See Half-moon.

Pertaining to a natural order (Menispermaceæ) of climbing plants of which moonseed (Menispermum) is the type.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, moonseed (Menispermum), or other plants of the same family, as the Anamirta Cocculus.

rring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.

The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.

To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. Dryden.

The moon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.

Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.

iberty. Hawthorne. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.

the lowest tides of the lunar month, which occur in the second and fourth quarters of the moon; -- opposed to spring tides.

The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.

nd ckeared and cultivated for the first time. -- New light. (Zoöl.) See Crappie. -- New moon. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. 2 Kings iv. 23. -- New R…

unrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. Gen. i. 5.

ning to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon. Nodical month. See Lunar month, under Month.

Of or pertaining to the new moon. [R.]