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Definition of Earthlight
1. n. The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."
Definition of Earthlight
1. Noun. sunlight reflected from the earth's surface ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Earthlight
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthlight
Literary usage of Earthlight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander Von Humboldt, Benjamin Horatio Paul, William Sweetland Dallas, Elise C. Otté (1852)
"The moon, which then stood vertically over the Atlantic Ocean, received on its
nocturnal side the green earthlight sent to it in a cloudless sky from the ..."
2. Astronomy of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Non-technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage (1909)
"The lunar landscape all around would, therefore, be bathed in what to him would
be " earthlight," which of course takes the place there of what we call ..."
3. Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings by William Frederick Denning (1891)
"A feeble illumination like twilight pervades the opaque part, and this is really
earthlight thrown upon our? satellite, for near the times of new moon the ..."
4. Cosmical Evolution: A New Theory of the Mechanism of Nature by Evan McLennan (1890)
"This earthlight would probably at the present time consist chiefly of reflected
sunlight. But it may also consist partly of light inherent in the Earth ..."
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