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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Moon \Moon\ (m[=oo]n), n. [OE. mone, AS. m[=o]na; akin to D. maan, OS. & OHG. m[=a]no, G. mond, Icel. m[=a]ni, Dan. maane, Sw. m[*a]ne, Goth. m[=e]na, Lith. men[*u], L. mensis month, Gr. mh`nh moon, mh`n month, Skr. m[=a]s moon, month; prob. from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure), from its serving to measure the time. [root]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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Moon \Moon\, 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Moon \Moon\, 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] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: Moon n 1: the natural satellite of the Earth; "the average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers"; "men first stepped on the moon in 1969" [syn: {Moon}, {moon}] 2: any object resembling a moon; "he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light"; "the clock had a moon that showed various phases" 3: the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) [syn: {lunar month}, {moon}, {lunation}, {synodic month}] 4: the light of the Moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the Moon was bright enough to read by" [syn: {moonlight}, {moonshine}, {Moon}] 5: United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920) [syn: {Moon}, {Sun Myung Moon}] 6: any natural satellite of a planet; "Jupiter has sixteen moons" v 1: have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" [syn: {daydream}, {moon}] 2: be idle in a listless or dreamy way [syn: {moon}, {moon around}, {moon on}] 3: expose one's buttocks to; "moon the audience"