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Definition of Moon dial

Moon dial
Moon Moon, 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?, L. mensis month, Gr. ? moon, ? 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. The crescent moon, the diadem of night. --Cowper. 2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn. 3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month. --Shak. 4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon. 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.

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- clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astronomical information, such as the relative positions of the Sun, Moon, zodiacal constellations, and...
- began shortly after the astronomical new moon of 23 August 205 BC. The Games dial is the right secondary upper dial; it is the only pointer on the instrument...
- Sky And MGM+'s Ancient Rome Drama Series". Deadline. "The Poem on the Moon Dial". Area 33 United States. 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023. Cooke, James...
- mechanism has three main components – the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details;...
- the Dial to put it up for auction on the black market. Indy is framed for two colleagues' murders, forcing him to escape through the Apollo 11 moon landing...
- manually each leap year on 29 February. A moon dial circles the inner ring of the zodiac, displaying the moon phase. The prin****l hand of the clock indicates...
- Union was the first country to successfully land a man on the Moon. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), fifth Indiana Jones film, in which Jürgen...
- Killers of the Flower Moon is a 2023 American epic Western crime drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Martin Scorsese. Eric Roth and Scorsese...
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- Maybole Cross in the gardens of Maybole Castle. The cross bears the coats of arms of the Kennedy family of C****illis and has a rare Moon dial on one face....