2. Verb. (third-person singular of moon) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moons
1. moon [v] - See also: moon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moons
Literary usage of Moons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Indian (Uh-nish-in-na-ba) by Elijah Middlebrook Haines (1888)
"Their cardinal divisions of time were into days and months, or suns and moons.
That is, the time from the rising and setting of the sun was a day, ..."
2. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"For, fixing all the first vernal fourteen moons (which were the paschal terms)
according to the cycle of the moon, and the next Sunday after, in every year ..."
3. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"If the ni-vf moons returned exactly at the same time after the expiration of
nineteen years, as the council of Nice supposed they would do (when they fixed ..."
4. A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, Leading to the Discovery of the Sources by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1828)
"Reckoning twelve moons to a year, as they do, more than three thousand moons,
adding the complementary days, bring us pretty nearly to the time of the ..."
5. The Sabbath: A Brief History of Laws, Petitions, Remonstrances and Reports by Harmon Kingsbury (1841)
"N. moons and Set Feasts. Neh. x. 33. N. moons and Sabbath. Ezek. xlv. 17. ...
Feast days, N. moons and Sabbaths, &c. Compare the above with Col. ii. 16, 17. ..."
6. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1893)
"MANY moons. Three moons have also been seen, as was the case in the consulship
of Cn. Domitius and C. Fannius ; they have generally been named nocturnal ..."
7. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"Everything points to the succession of phases in a moon, and of moons in a seasonal
... Savages often recognise the succession of moons without keeping any ..."
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