n. [ Black + Moor. ] A negro or negress. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Blackamoor. [ 1913 Webster ]

def>The second full moon occurring in the same month; -- derived from the expression once in a blue moon; as, we had a blue moon on January 31, 1999, and another in March. [ PJC ]

once in a blue moon very rarely; -- from the observation that the moon rarely has a bluish tint. In 1980, the phrase blue moon was applied to the second full moon of any month, because this phenomenon is unusual. This new meaning for blue moon, a long time, used primarily in the phrase once in a blue moon, has become widely accepted. [ PJC ]

. (U. S. Politics) (a) A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; -- a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt “like a bull moose.” [ Cant ] (b) The figure of a bull moose used as the party symbol of the Progressive party in the presidential campaign of 1912. -- Bull Mooser. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From Exmoor, a district in Somersetshire and Devonshire. ] 1. One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the time when the moon is fully illuminated.
Syn. -- full moon, full-of-the-moon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

See how in warlike muster they appear,
In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Homo- + organ. ] Same as Homoplast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; the same + &unr_; being, essence, substance. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The first month after marriage. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vacation taken together by a newly married couple, usually including a trip away from home. [ PJC ]

3. Hence: [ fig. ] Any initial period of harmony after two or more people or organizations begin working together; as, the usual honeymoon for a newly elected president was cut short by resumption of partisan sniping over the budget. [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) The Himalayan snow partridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., adv., & n. See Mo. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Mooed p. pr. & vb. n. Mooing. ] [ Of imitative origin. ] To make the noise of a cow; to low; -- a child's word. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The lowing of a cow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to ask for and get free; to borrow without intending to repay; to sponge; -- usually with objects of small value; as, he mooched a few cigarettes from me.
Syn. -- bum, cadge, grub, sponge. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. To beg for. [ PJC ]

n. a cow{ 1 }; -- a child's word. See 1st cow{ 1 }, n. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See Mode. ] 1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mood, mod, AS. mōdmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. mōd, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. mōðr wrath, Goth. mōds. ] Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till at the last aslaked was his mood. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fortune is merry,
And in this mood will give us anything. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mother. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a moody manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Ar. mudīr. ] The governor of a province in Egypt, etc. [ Written also mudir. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Moody. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Moodily. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Moodier superl. Moodiest. ] [ AS. mōdig courageous. ] 1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. “Every peevish, moody malcontent.” Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. money. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

{ }, n. See Mollah. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Mulley. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ CF. Gael. maolag a hornless cow, maol bald, hornless, blunt. ] 1. A mulley or polled animal. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cow. [ Prov. Eng.; U.S., a child's word. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Leave milking and dry up old mulley, thy cow. Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, a. Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow. [ U. S. ] [ Written also muley. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mone, AS. mōna; akin to D. maan, OS. & OHG. māno, G. mond, Icel. māni, Dan. maane, Sw. måne, Goth. mēna, Lith. menů, L. mensis month, Gr. mh`nh moon, mh`n month, Skr. mās moon, month; prob. from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. mā to measure), from its serving to measure the time. √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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The crescent moon, the diadem of night. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The deliberately exposed naked buttocks. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mooned p. pr. & vb. n. Mooning. ] 1. To expose to the rays of the moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); -- a vulgar sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank. [ PJC ]

v. i. To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A ray of light from the moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dim-sighted; purblind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dolt; a stupid fellow. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon. “Sharpening in mooned horns.” “Mooned Ashtaroth.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [ R. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Conduct of one who moons. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little moon. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. Hyodon tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters. (b) The cisco. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a round, full face. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish. (b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish. (c) The mola. See Sunfish, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy. (b) A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Mung. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]