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MOO'N-DIAL, f. A dial to Ihow the time by the moon. 
MOO'N-EYED, adj. Having eyes aftefted by the revo¬ 
lutions of the moon. Dim-eyed ; purblind : 
So manifeft, that e’en the moon-ey'd lefts 
See whom and what this providence protefts. 
Dryden's Britan. Bcdiviva. 
MQO'N-EYES, f. A difeafe in the eyes of horfes. 
MOO'N-FISH, f. A fpecies of the genus Diodon.— 
Moon-fjh is fo called, becaule the tail-fin is (liaped like a 
half-moon, by which, and his oddtruffed ihape, he is fufn- 
ciently diftinguifhed. Grew's Muf. 
MGO'N-LfGHT, j. The light afforded by the moon. 
—Their bilhop and his clergy being departed from them 
by moon-light, to choofe in his room any other bifliop had 
been altogether impofTible. Hooker. 
Thou haft by moon-light at her window fung, 
With feigning voice, verfes of feigning love. Shahefpeare. 
MOO'N-LIGHT, adj. Illuminated by the moon : 
If you will patiently dance in our round, 
And lee our moon-liglit revels, go with us. Shahefpeare. 
MOO'N-LOVED, adj. Loved when the moon Ihines: 
And the yellow-lkirted fayes 
Fly after the night-fteeds, leaving their moon-lov'd maze. 
Milton s Hymn on the Nativity. 
MOO'N-SEED,/ See Menispermum. —The moon-feed 
hath a rofaceous flower: the pointal is divided into three 
parts of the top, and afterward becomes the fruit or berry, 
in which is included one flat feed, which is, when ripe, 
hollow'ed like the appearance of the moon. Miller. 
MOO'N-SHINE, J'. The luftre of the moon : 
Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about, 
Till candles, and ftar-light, and moon-Jhine, be out. Shahefp. 
I, by the moonjhine , to the window's went j 
And, ere I was aware, figh’d to myfelf. Dryden. 
[In burlefque.] A month : 
I am fome twelve or fourteen moon-Jhines 
Lag of a brother. Shahefpeare's K. Lear. 
MOO'N-SHINE, or Moon-shiny, adj. Illuminated by 
the moon.—Although it was a fair moon-Jhine night, the 
enemy thought not fit to allault them. Clarendon. —I w'ent 
to fee them in a moon-Jhiny night. Addijon. 
Fairies, black, gray, green, and white, 
You moon-Jhine revellers, andfliades of night. Shahefpeare. 
MOO'N-STONE, J\ See the article Mineralogy, in 
this vol. p. 4.62, 3. 
MOO'N-STRUCK, adj. Lunatic; affefted by the moon : 
Demoniac phrenly, moping melancholy, 
And moon-Jlruch madnefs. Milton's P. L. 
MOON-TRE'FOIL, J'. See Medic ago. — The moon- 
trefoil hath a plain orbiculated fruit, fliaped like an half¬ 
moon. Miller. 
MOO'N-WORT, /! A plant fometimes called honefty. 
See Lunaria and Osmunda. 
And I ha’ been plucking (plants among) 
Hemlock, henbane, adder’s tongue, 
Night-fhade, moon-wort, libbards-bane. B.Jcnfcn. 
MOONAGUR'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in Gol- 
conda : thirty-five miles eaft-north-eaft of Golconda. - 
MOO'NED, adj. Refembling the new moon : 
While thus he fpake, the angelic fquadron bright 
Turn’d fiery red, lharpening in mooned horns 
Their phalanx. Milton's P. L. 
Having the title and charafter of the moon : 
Peor and Baalim forfake their temples dim, 
With that twice-batter’d god of Paleftine, 
And mooned Afhtaroth, heaven's queen and mother both 
Now fits not girt with tapers’ holy fhine. Milton. 
MOO'NET, J". A little moon.—Some lefler planets 
M O O 
moving round about the fun, and the moonets about Saturn 
and Jupiter. Bp. Hall's Free Prifoner. 
MOO'NISH, adj. Like the moon ; variable as the moon ; 
flighty.—At which time would I, being but a moonijh 
youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing, and 
liking. Shakefpeare's As you like it. —He tells you of a de¬ 
luge and wonderful fraftion that hath been in that world, 
[the moon,] much like the fame which he hath repre- 
fented unto us of our world; with feveral other fuch rare 
moonijk inventions. Croft's A mm. on Burnet's Theory. 
MOO'NLESS, adj. Not enlightened by the moon : 
Aflifted by a friend, one moonlejs night, 
This Palamon from prifon took his flight. Dryden. 
MOO'NLING, f. [from moon.] A fimpleton : 
I have a hufband, and a two-legg’d one; 
But fuch a moonling, as no wit of man, 
Or rofes, can redeem from being an afs. 
B. donjon's Dev. an Ass. 
MOO'NY, adj. Denoting the moon : 
Diana did begin, What mov’d me to invite 
Your prefence, After deare, firftto my moony fphere ? Sidney. 
Lunated; having a crefcent for the ftandard refembling 
the moon. — The moony ftandards of proud Ottoman. 
Sylvejler. 
Encountering fierce 
The Solymean fuitan, he o’erthrew 
His moony troops, returning bravely fmear’d 
With Panim blood. Phillips. 
MOONYGUR'RY; a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Sehaurunpour : twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Merat. 
MOOR, J\ \_moer, Teut. and Ice!, mud, clay ; maer, 
Swed. rotten earth.] A heath ; a marfh ; a fen ; a bog ; a 
traft of low and watery grounds.—While in her girlifh age 
file kept fheep on the moor, it chanced that a London mer¬ 
chant palling by faw her, and liked her, begged her of her 
poor parents, and carried her to his home. Carew's Sitrv. 
of Cornwall. — In the great level near Thorny, leveral 
trees of oak and nr ftand in firm earth below the moor. Hale. 
Let the marfh of Elfham Bruges tell. 
What colour were their waters that fame day, 
And all the moor ’twixt Elverfham and Dell. Spenfer's F. Q. 
MOOR , f. [mounts, Lat. pavfo^, Gr. black.] A negro; 
a blackamoor.—I fhall anfwer that better than you can the 
getting up of the negro’s belly ; the moor is with child by 
you. Shahefpeare. 
MOOR, f. in the Ifle of Man, one of thofe officers who 
fummon the courts for the Cevera.\Jheadin°-s : they are the 
lord’s bailiffs. The moor has the like office with our bai¬ 
liff of the hundred. Jacob's Law Ditt. 
MOOR, a town of Virginia, on the Mattapony : four 
miles north-weft of Weft Point. 
MOOR (Karel de), a painter of great excellence, was 
born at Leyden in 1656. tie was firft a difciple of Gerard 
Douw, and afterwards improved himfelf under Tempel, 
Mieris, and Schalcken. When he began to follow his 
profeffion on his own ground, he chiefly purfued the walk 
of portrait, in which he foon attained a high reputation. 
This was merited by the great care he bellowed on his 
pidfures, which were exactly finifhed in a fine ftyle of paint¬ 
ing, fome of them exhibiting the dignity, ftrength, and 
elegance, of Vandyke ; others the fpirit and ftriking ef- 
feft of Rembrandt. In liiftorical compofition alfo he dif- 
played great fkill, with more grace and good tafte than 
ulual among his countrymen. His performances were 
fought after by many of the princes in Europe ; and the 
grand duke of Tufcany requefted his portrait to place in 
his gallery of painters.' The imperial ambaflador, count 
Zinzendorf, engaged him to paint the portraits of the 
duke of Marlborough and prince Eugene on horfeback, 
which he executed in fo mafterly a manner as to excite 
univerfal admiration, and to obtain from the emperor the 
dignity of a knight of the empire. He died in 1738, at 
the age of eighty-two. Pilhington's Diet. 
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