Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
moonbeam |
noun |
A ray of light from the moon. |
mooncalf |
noun |
A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus., A dolt; a stupid fellow. |
moon-eye |
noun |
A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse., Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters., The cisco. |
moonfish |
noun |
An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); — called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish., A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); — called also lookdown, and silver moonfish., The mola. See Sunfish, 1. |
moonless |
adjective |
Being without a moon or moonlight. |
moonling |
noun |
A simpleton; a lunatic. |
moonrise |
noun |
The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising. |
moonsail |
noun |
A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. |
moonseed |
noun |
A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; — so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds. |
moonshee |
noun |
A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language. |
moonwort |
noun |
The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty., Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; — so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond. |
moorball |
noun |
A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass. |
moorband |
noun |
See Moorpan. |
moorland |
noun |
Land consisting of a moor or moors. |
mootable |
adjective |
Capable of being mooted. |