Meaning of Moonshine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The light of the moon.
   countable, literally, uncountable
2. High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
   countable, informal, uncountable
3. Smuggled spirits, often with a specific sense; (Kent, Sussex) white brandy; (Yorkshire) gin.
   UK, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable
4. Nonsense.
   informal, uncountable
5. A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
   uncountable
6. A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
   US, countable, uncountable
7. A month.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] her Waggon Spokes made of long Spinners legs: the Couer of the wings of Graſhoppers, her Traces of the ſmalleſt Spiders web, her coullers of the Moonſhines watry Beames […]”

“[…] the newes coming every moment of the growth of the fire; so as we were forced to begin⟳ to pack⟳ up our owne goods; and prepare⟳ for their removal; and did by moonshine (it being brave dry, and moonshine, and warm weather) carry⟳ much of my goods into the garden […]”

“[…] I have⟳ been in an Ague fit, ever ſince ſhut of Evening; what with the fright of Trees by the High-way, which look'd maliciouſly like⟳ Thieves, by Moon-ſhine: and what with Bulruſhes by the River-ſide, that ſhak'd like⟳ Spears, and Lances at me.”

“[…] O Nymph more bright than moon-ſhine night, like⟳ Kidlings blithe and merry […]”

“In mist or cloud on mast or shroud / It perch’d for vespers nine, / Whiles all the night thro’ fog smoke-white / Glimmer’d the white moon-shine.”

“So I came forth of the sea and sat down on the edge of an island in the moonshine, where a passer-by found me and, carrying me to the his house, besought me of love-liesse; but I smote him on the head, so that he all but died; whereupon he carried me forth and sold me to the merchant from whom thou hadst me, […]”

““[…] it would be lovely to sleep⟳ in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don’t you think⟳? […]””

“They watered down the moonshine.”

““Wish⟳ I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. […] I know⟳ she’d have⟳ give⟳ me another drink⟳ of that old moonshine she has.””

“My great grandpa was a blues lover / He'd be rockin' his moonshine to B.B. King and Jimmy Reed”

“He was talking moonshine.”

““[…] But sometimes you might make⟳ the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Suppose⟳ you had decided to follow⟳ Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills—Snowball, who, as we now know⟳, was no better than a criminal?””

“We forget⟳ what we have⟳ learned in the last⟳ 60 years. At university I once asked one of my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could I prove⟳ there was a force⟳ that could move⟳ continents, then he might think⟳ about it. The idea was moonshine, I was informed.”

“[…] wherefore ſhould I / Stand⟳ in the plague of cuſtome, and permit⟳ / The curioſity of Nations to depriue me? / For that I am ſome twelue, or fourteene Moonſhines / Lag of a brother?”

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