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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 full moon. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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.

the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.

The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty.

Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane. Vain labors of terrestrial wit. Spenser. A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims. Young.