单词 | moonrise |
释义 | moonrisen. The rising of the moon above the horizon; the time at which this occurs; †the east (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun] eastwardeOE eastc1175 sunrisinga1382 orientc1385 sun-springa1400 eastwarda1450 eastwards?1574 sunristc1600 rising sun1613 aurora1617 morn1647 moonrise1728 morning-land1838 dawning1879 the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > movement of moon > [noun] > rise moonrise1728 1728 Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 454 A luminous Arch..which extended it self almost from Sun-set to Moon-rise. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. x. 37 O'er the still sea and jagged islets darted The light of moonrise. 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. 172 The time between two successive moonrises varies considerably. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn viii. 65 When it was good and dark, I slid out from shore about moonrise. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 26 (title) Red moon-rise. 1931 E. O'Neill Mourning becomes Electra i. i. 191 You dasn't stay there till moonrise at ten o'clock. 1975 Sci. Amer. Feb. 70/2 A lunar day is 24·8 hours in length, the interval between successive moonrises. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1728 |
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