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moonshiny, a.|ˈmuːnʃaɪnɪ|
[f. moonshine n. + -y.]
1. Illuminated by the moon; moonlight.
1602Carew Cornwall 136 b, In a faire Moone-shinie night, he hyeth to dig it up. 1717Pope in Lady M. W. Montagu's Lett. Oct., I lie dreaming of you in moonshiny nights. 1886P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 140 Every one who likes to do so may still believe that on moon⁓shiny nights the elves and fays come out into the meadows.
2. White as moonlight; resembling moonlight.
1825Coleridge Alice du Clos 18 As spotless fair, as airy light As that moon-shiny doe. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iv. iv, Thy serenely beautiful Philosophising, with its soft moonshiny clearness.
3. Of the nature of ‘moonshine’; vain, unreal.
1857H. Melville Confidence Man xli. 312 And moon⁓shiny as it in theory may be, yet a very practical philosophy. 1880Sat. Rev. No. 1291. 122 There is a good deal of moon⁓shiny sentiment in it, especially in the conversation of the lovers. 1884A. Maclaren in Chr. Commw. 11 Dec. 111/2 Unsubstantial emptinesses and moonshiny illusions..which men chase after. |