moonful
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4ADJ.
future, strange
VERB + MOONFUL
book, worth
MOONFUL + NOUN
consuelos, machinery, night
PREP.
on, with
Definitions
adj
Marked by the presence of the moon.
Near-synonym: moonlit
She sobbed herself to sleep and then dreamed she was walking on a beach on a moonful night, a strange but distantly known city on the horizon.
Resembling the moon in some manner, such as being round, bright, etc.
The cattle-shed is equally curious, containing specimens of the genus Bos, the Brahmin cattle with their mild moonful eyes, […]
Muir sipped the last of his coffee, his moonful face breaking into a knowing grin.
noun
An amount sufficient to fill the moon.
For suggestion of what one may really do, and for impelling one toward the practicable best, I find this book worth a moonful of " Consuelos."
I jumped in the river, what did I see? / Black-eyed angels swam with me / A moonful of stars and astral cars / And all the figures I used to see
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6Near-synonym: moonlit
WiktionaryShe sobbed herself to sleep and then dreamed she was walking on a beach on a moonful night, a strange but distantly known city on the horizon.
WiktionaryYet let it also be known that long before that dire time, on a future moonful night, a voice shall rise up out of the yawning sea and recall it: […]
WiktionaryFor suggestion of what one may really do, and for impelling one toward the practicable best, I find this book worth a moonful of " Consuelos."
WiktionaryI jumped in the river, what did I see? / Black-eyed angels swam with me / A moonful of stars and astral cars / And all the figures I used to see
WiktionaryThe number of calculations became boundless; not even a moonful of machinery would be able to track and predict the trajectories.
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