moon-light

Noun

moonlight (usually uncountable, plural moonlights)

1. (also, attributive, usually) The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.
   • Meronym: moonbeam

   Synonyms:

   moonshine

2. (archaic, usually) The silvery colour of the light reflected by the Moon.
3. (UK, archaic, dialectal, usually) Synonym of moonshine (“illegally produced or smuggled spirits”).
   • Barter'd for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch'd spoils lie stow'd in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler's evening cart.1809, [Walter Scott], “Fragments, which Originally Appeared in the Edinburgh Annual Register for 1809. The Poacher.”, in The Bridal of Triermain, or The Vale of St John. In Three Cantos, Edinburgh...

   Synonyms:

   moonshine

4. (countable, informal, usually) Chiefly in to do a moonlight: short for moonlight flit (“an act of secretly leaving premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon; hence, any act of escaping at night”).
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable, usually) A picture of a scene illuminated by light reflected by the Moon.
6. (US, countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable, usually) A journey made at night when the Moon is shining.

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