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

An inhabitant of the moon.

Lunar. [Obs.] Fuller.

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

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.

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.

Being or lying beyond the moon; hence, ethereal; -- opposed to sublunary. [Obs.] Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave, translunary things That the first poets had. Drayton.

s, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

sh, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. -- Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed…

so effected. -- Potential cautery, a substance which cauterizes by chemical action; as, lunar caustic; also, the cauterizing produced by such substance.

ing concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration. Concentration of the lunar beams. Boyle. Intense concetration of thought. Sir J. Herschel.

conical form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton.

me meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.