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moonshine
  1. (literally) The light of the moon; moonlight.
  2. (informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
  3. (colloquial) nonsense
  4. (mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
  5. (US) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
  6. (obsolete) A month.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “It would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don't you think?”
      “He was taking about when Brenda and I had got together one night when we were drinking some moonshine we stole from Mr. Sutton.”
      “I know the press people say he takes the loss of lives hard, but that's just pure moonshine!”
moonlighter
  1. A person who moonlights, or works a second job on the side.
  2. (US, regional) One who serenades by moonlight.
  3. A moonshiner, who makes illicit alcohol.
  4. (Ireland, historical) One of a gang who used violence, especially at night, to promote agrarianism in Ireland during the Land War of the late 19th century.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The line for Louis Migliore between moonlighter and entrepreneur this winter measures nearly five feet deep.”
      “Before the terrified boys and girls could comply the father appeared and shot a moonlighter dead in his tracks.”
      “You plan to start a very small business as a moonlighter.”
moonlight
moonbeam
  1. A shaft of moonlight.
  2. Moonlight generally.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “A blue haze was cast over the world as the last moonbeam pierced the skies.”
      “His silhouette blocked out the moonbeam from entering the window, the dim light made it hard to see what was going on inside.”
      “The moonbeam takes on green reflections on a blade of grass, or grey ones on the surface of a lake.”
moonbow
  1. (meteorology) A rainbow formed by moonlight diffracted by water droplets in the air, usually fainter than a daytime rainbow and with fewer distinguishable colours.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Last night, I was amazed to see a beautiful moonbow, a rainbow formed by moonlight diffracted by water droplets in the air.”
      “Stand beside Cumberland Falls, the only place in the Northern Hemisphere where you can see a regularly occurring moonbow.”
      “It created a complete rainbow — only it was a moonbow.”
moonburn
  1. (humorous) A hypothetical burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to moonlight.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Colon A makes sense, given the strong Mediterranean sun. But to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever suffered moonburn.”
moonglade
  1. (poetic, rare) The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The moonglade shimmered peacefully on the still surface of the lake, casting an ethereal glow across the night.”
      “However, he came unstuck when his 66-1 selection Moonglade failed to score in the last.”
      “Owner, Moonglade Holdings, plans to demolish the 16-storey building and replace it with a 10-storey office block.”
moonwake
  1. The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Mariners sometimes call the moving path of light leading to the moon the moonwake, because it looks like the white wash of a ship's wake.”
moonlighting
moonshining
  1. (informal, US) Illicit production and distribution of liquor.
  2. Examples:
    1. “William G. Davis, a former assistant United States attorney in Roanoke, is the area's leading defense lawyer for people charged with moonshining.”
      “Federal agents' past efforts to fight moonshining in cooperation with state regulators have been largely fruitless.”
      “So he largely had to teach himself moonshining by studying distillery textbooks and consulting the half-dozen other legal microdistillers who have cropped up lately in other parts of the country.”
moonshiner
  1. Someone who makes or distributes moonshine
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The process of capturing the moonshiner has changed considerably from that of other days.”
      “His venture as a moonshiner at all events was, so to speak, a side line of employ.”
      “The moonshiner himself was in prison, leaving his wife to quite literally run the business from a battered Model T Ford.”
moonglow
  1. moonlight
  2. Examples:
    1. “They fell silent only when the moon disappeared behind the spire, an ember burning out, leaving an opalescent moonglow behind.”
      “Her back arched, and in the moonglow she looked like a pagan offering, mysterious, delectable, irresistible.”
      “He laughed and wandered farther down Moonglow Road until he came to a lone house on the deserted street.”
moonlightings
moonlighters
moonshiners
  1. plural of moonshiner
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They relish telling stories about moonshiners, smugglers, and contraband runners who successfully fool and evade federal agents.”
      “This mythology of Appalachian mountaineers as feudists and moonshiners was fostered through local color literature and fiction about the region.”
      “The road ends at Upper Killeyan, but it is worth walking the last mile to the coast, once the favourite haunt of smugglers and moonshiners.”
moonglades
moonshines
moonbeams
  1. plural of moonbeam
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Leaning out the window, one half of my face bathed in moonbeams, I plotted my fantastic escape.”
      “The temple was glistening with odd shadows and angles thanks to the moonbeams, and light reflected on and off his face.”
      “The way the moonbeams hit his face made him look pale and phantasmal, like he was a just an illusion sitting there against that dripping tree.”
moonburns
  1. plural of moonburn
moonbows
  1. plural of moonbow
  2. Examples:
    1. “Among the rarer optical effects associated with the moon are also moonbows or lunar rainbows.”
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