(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.
“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
(meteorology) A rainbow formed by moonlight diffracted by water droplets in the air, usually fainter than a daytime rainbow and with fewer distinguishable colours.
“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.”