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Silver. Luna cornea (Old Chem.), horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass; -- so called from its resemblance to horn. Luna moth (Zoöl.), a very large and beautiful American moth (Actias luna). Its wings are delicate light green, with a stripe of purple along the front edge of the anterior…

lienation. 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.

Lunar. [Obs.] Fuller.

Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross. Gray.

Affected by lunacy; insane; mad. Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic. Wyclif (Matt. xvii. 15).

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

Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible. Milton.

See Half-moon.

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

Of or pertaining to the full moon. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus. -- n.

Shaped like a half moon. Semilunar bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus; the lunar. See Lunar, n. -- Semilunar, or Sigmoid, valves (Anat.), the valves at the beginning of the aorta and of the pulmonary artery which prevent the blood from flowing back into the ventricle.

Semilunar.

Semilunar.

eath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are under. South.

Any worldly thing. [Obs.]

Being above the moon; not belonging to this world; -- opposed to sublunary. The head that turns at superlunar things. Pope.

Beyond the moon; hence, very lofty.