Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Half-moon

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Half-moon

Subjects in this Topic:

Half-faced
Half-fish
Half-hatched
Half-heard
Half-hearted
Half-hourly
Half-learned
Half-length
Half-mast
Half-moon
Half-pike
Half-port
Half-ray
Half-read
Half-sighted
Half-sister
Half-strained
Half-sword
Half-timbered

(1):

(n.) The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.

(2):

(n.) The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.

(3):

(n.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.

(4):

(n.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.