Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MOOD'I-LY, adv. [from moody.]

Sadly. [Obs.]

MOOD'I-NESS, n.

Anger; peevishness.

MOOD'Y, a. [Sax. modig, angry.]

1. Angry; peevish; fretful; out of humor. Every peevish moody malcontent. Rowe.
2. Mental; intellectual; as, moody food. Obs.] Shak.
3. Sad; pensive.
4. Violent; furious.

MOON, n. [Sax. mona; Goth. mena; Dan. maane; Sw. måna; D. maan; G. mond; Gr. μηνη, Doric, μανα; Lapponic, mana.]

1. The heavenly orb which revolves round the earth; a secondary planet or satellite of the earth, whose borrowed light is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel the darkness of night. Its mean distance from the earth is 60 1-2 semidiameters of the earth, or 240,000 miles. Its revolution round the earth in 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, constitutes the lunar month.
2. A month. This is the sense in which rude nations use the name of the moon; as, seven moons. Half-moon, in fortification, a figure resembling a crescent.

MOON'-BEAM, n.

A ray of light from the moon. Dryden.

MOON'-BLAST-ED, a.

Blasted by the influence of the moon. Coleridge.

MOON'-CALF, n.

1. A monster; a false conception. Shak.
2. A mole or mass of fleshy matter generated in the uterus.
3. A dolt; a stupid fellow. Dryden.

MOON'ED, a.

Taken for the moon. Milton.

MOON'ET, n.

A little moon. Hall.

MOON'-EYE, n.

An eye affected by the moon.

MOON'-EY-ED, a.

1. Having eyes affected by the revolutions of the moon.
2. Dim-eyed; purblind. Ainsworth.

MOON'-FISH, n.

A fish whose tail is shaped like a half-moon. Grew.

MOON'ISH, a.

Like the moon; variable. Shak.

MOON'LESS, a.

Not favored with moonlight. Dryden.

MOON'LIGHT, a.

Illuminated by thermoon; as, moonlight revels. Shak.

MOON'LIGHT, n.

The light afforded by the moon.

MOON'LING, n.

A simpleton. B. Johnson.

MOON'LOV-ED, a.

Loved when the moon shines. Milton.

MOON'-SEED, n.

A plant of the genus Menispermum. Miller.

MOON'-SHEE, n.

In Hindostan, an interpreter.

MOON'SHINE, or MOON'SHIN-Y, a.

Illuminated by the moon; as, a fair moonshine night. Clarendon. I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.

MOON'SHINE, n.

1. The light of the moon. Dryden.
2. In burlesque, a month. Shak. A matter of moonshine, a matter of no consequence or of indifference.

MOON'STONE, n.

A variety of adularia, of a white color, or a yellowish or greenish white, somewhat iridescent, found in blunt amorphous masses, or crystalized in truncated rhomboidal prisms, or in rectangular tables, or in hexahedral prisms beveled at both ends. The surface is often sulcated. Kirwan.

MOON'STRUCK, a.

Affected by the influence of the moon; lunatic; as, moonstruck madness. Milton.

MOON-TRE'FOIL, n.

A plant of the genus Mendicago.