From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
moon
n 1: the natural satellite of the Earth; "the average distance to
the moon is 384,400 kilometers"; "men first stepped on
the moon in 1969"
2: any object resembling a moon; "he made a moon lamp that he
used as a night light"; "the clock had a moon that showed
various phases"
3: the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) [syn:
lunar month, lunation, synodic month]
4: the light of the moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy";
"the moon was bright enough to read by" [syn: moonlight,
moonshine]
5: United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded
the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of
conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920) [syn: Moon,
Sun Myung Moon]
6: any natural satellite of a planet; "Jupiter has sixteen
moons"
v 1: have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked
out the window, daydreaming" [syn: daydream]
2: be idle in a listless or dreamy way [syn: moon around,
moon on]
3: expose one's buttocks to; "moon the audience"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Moon \Moon\ (m[=oo]n), n. [OE. mone, AS. m[=o]na; akin to D.
maan, OS. & OHG. m[=a]no, G. mond, Icel. m[=a]ni, Dan. maane,
Sw. m[*a]ne, Goth. m[=e]na, Lith. men[*u], L. mensis month,
Gr. mh`nh moon, mh`n month, Skr. m[=a]s moon, month; prob.
from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure),
from its serving to measure the time. [root]271. Cf. Mete
to measure, Menses, Monday, Month.]
1. The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the
satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light,
borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and
serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of
the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth
is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of
the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.
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The crescent moon, the diadem of night. --Cowper.
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2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any
member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or
Saturn.
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3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in
her orbit; a month; as, it's been many moons since I last
visited Washington. --Shak.
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4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
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5. The deliberately exposed naked buttocks. [slang]
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Moon blindness.
(a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at
intervals of three or four weeks.
(b) (Med.) Hemeralopia.
Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight.
Moon face, a round face like a full moon.
Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic]
Moon month, a lunar month.
Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic ({Medicago
arborea}). See Medic.
Moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being
sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.
blue moon, see blue moon in the vocabulary.
many moons, a long time.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Moon \Moon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mooning.]
1. To expose to the rays of the moon.
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If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they
seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus
sunned and mooned. --Holland.
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2. To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); -- a vulgar
sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Moon \Moon\, v. i.
To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an
abstracted manner.
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Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. --C.
Kingsley.
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