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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.

3. The time occupied by the moon in making
one revolution in her orbit; a month. Shak.

4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See
Half-moon.

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.

Moon, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Mooned (?); p.


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