Definition of Half-maon
Half"-moon` (-m&oomac;n`), n.
1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk
appears illuminated.
2. The shape of a half-moon; a
crescent.
See how in warlike muster they appear,
In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.
Milton.
3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two
faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; --
now called a ravelin.
4. (Zoöl.) A marine, sparoid,
food fish of California (Cæsiosoma Californiense). The
body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also
medialuna.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- the moon, in its first or last quarter, when only half the face is illuminated
- anything shaped like a crescent, especially the base of a fingernail
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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