单词 | time of the moon |
释义 | > as lemmastime of the moon f. time of the moon: a point in the lunar cycle. ΚΠ 1528 tr. Aristotle De Cursione Lune xv. sig. bv Loke thou therof take noo kepe If thou haue any thyng to done Abyde a beeter [read better] tyme of the moone. 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. xxxii. f. 24v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe The horse that hath this disease, is blinde at certaine tymes of the Moone. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 145 The immortall minde..doth not vary through Lunatickness or Frantickness at a certain time of the Moon. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub iv. 97 The Operation was performed by Spargefaction in a proper Time of the Moon. 1798 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. II. 709/2 Mondäugig, lunatic, whose eyes run at certain Times of the Moon. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 211 The right time of the moon for the ‘tigers of the sea’ [i.e. sharks] to be about. 1934 Evening Independent (St. Petersburg, Florida) 6 Nov. 11/2 There is always a good crop at harvest time if the planting is done at the right time of the moon. 2002 Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 2 June At a time of the moon when bottom fishing can be difficult due to rapid water movement from the big tides. < as lemmas |
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