dark moonn.
/ˌdɑːk ˈmuːn/, U.S. /ˌdɑrk ˈmun/ The time at or near new moon when there is no moonlight; = dark of the moon n. at dark n. Phrases; (also) the moon when not illuminated by the sun.
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full moonOE
new moonOE
waningc1000
new of the moona1398
quarter?a1425
plenilune?a1475
neomeniaa1535
lunationc1549
interlune1561
wane1563
neomeny1569
dark of the moon1591
month of apparition1594
dark moon1615
plenilunium1615
moon1709
interlunation1813
quartering1880
1615 J. Taylor Faire & Fowle Weather sig. A3 In leaking ship, and which hath grieu'd me more, In a long night a darke Moone, and lee shore.
1760 Public Ledger 22 Apr. 346/1 There was more risque than one per cent. to lie by in the channel, with a hard gale of wind, long nights, and dark moon.
1834 Dublin Penny Jrnl. 25 Oct. 132/2 Bamboos, as thick as a man's arm, are sometimes used for paling, &c.: if cut at the dark moon they will endure for ten or twelve years.
1978 G. Eklund Starless World xvi. 81 Only the scarlet corona of the sun spilling around the disk of the dark moon provided any light to guide them.
2013 A. Casale Bone Dragon (2014) 72 ‘Ten days till the new moon.’ The next dark moon, the Dragon corrects me.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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- to face a lie
- to face a lie upon
- to face a person out of
- to face a person with
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