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Definition of Moon-round
1. Adjective. Resembling the moon in shape.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moon-round
Literary usage of Moon-round
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1866)
"... singular proportion: The period of rotation of the earth on its axis is in
the same proportion to the periodic time of the moon round the earth, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In consequence, the mean orbit of the moon round the earth becomes a moving
ellipse whose major axis make» a revolution round the earth in about nine years, ..."
3. A Treatise on Astronomy for the Use of Colleges and Schools by Hugh Godfray (1886)
"Path of the Moon round the Sun. 308. That motion of the moon, which we have
hitherto considered, is relative to the earth, and would be her absolute motion ..."
4. The Works of M. de Voltaire. by Voltaire (1763)
"... the Moon round the earth* !..•>/. .• ...-. . , . • . .>.': -ir i • «•. . .
-.\ ALL bodies-, in whatever part of the unfa ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1866)
"... singular proportion: The period of rotation of the earth on its axis is in
the same proportion to the periodic time of the moon round the earth, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In consequence, the mean orbit of the moon round the earth becomes a moving
ellipse whose major axis make» a revolution round the earth in about nine years, ..."
7. A Treatise on Astronomy for the Use of Colleges and Schools by Hugh Godfray (1886)
"Path of the Moon round the Sun. 308. That motion of the moon, which we have
hitherto considered, is relative to the earth, and would be her absolute motion ..."
8. The Works of M. de Voltaire. by Voltaire (1763)
"... the Moon round the earth* !..•>/. .• ...-. . , . • . .>.': -ir i • «•. . .
-.\ ALL bodies-, in whatever part of the unfa ..."
9. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1764)
"... will be in proportion to the velocity of the moon round its axis, arid the
quantity of ... The velocity of the moon round its axis, is lefs than the ..."
10. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1764)
"... will be in proportion to the velocity of the moon round its axis, arid the
quantity of ... The velocity of the moon round its axis, is lefs than the ..."
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