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ˈmoonrise
[f. moon n.1 + rise n.]
The rise of the moon. Also used for: The east. Also (U.S.), the time at which the moon rises.
1728Phil. Trans. XXXV. 454 A luminous Arch..which extended it self almost from Sun-set to Moon-rise. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam ii. x, O'er the still sea and jagged islets darted The light of moonrise. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. 172 The time between two successive moonrises varies considerably. 1877in Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 4). 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn. viii. 63 When it was good and dark, I slid out from shore about moonrise. 1913D. H. Lawrence Love Poems & Others 26 (title) Red moon-rise. 1926E. M. Roberts Time of Man (1927) x. 379 I'll be gone at moonrise. 1931E. O'Neill Mourning becomes Electra i. i. 191 You dasn't stay there till moonrise at ten o'clock. 1975Sci. Amer. Feb. 70/2 A lunar day is 24·8 hours in length, the interval between successive moonrises. |