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"Section M, N, and O"


Like the moon; variable.


Being but a moonish youth.

Shak.


Moon"less, a. Being without a moon
or moonlight.


Moon`light` (?), n. The light of
the moon.
-- a. Occurring during or by
moonlight; characterized by moonlight.


Moon"ling (?), n. A simpleton; a
lunatic.
[Obs.]


Moon"lit` (?), a. Illumined by the
moon.
"The moonlit sea." Moore. "Moonlit
dells." Lowell.


Moon"rak`er (?), n. (Naut.)
Same as Moonsail.


Moon"rise` (?), n. The rising of
the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.


Moon"sail` (?), n. (Naut.)
A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail.
R. H. Dana, Jr.


Moon"seed` (?), n. (Bot.) A
climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the
crescentlike form of the seeds.


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