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(Encyclopedia) satellite, natural, celestial body orbiting a planet, dwarf planet, asteroid, or star of a larger size. The most familiar natural satellite is the earth's moon; thus, satellites of…Once in a Blue Moon
by Borgna Brunner and Anne Marie Imbornoni Related Links Perpetual Calendar Blue Moon Resources Blue Moon Page "What's a Blue Moon?" from Sky & Telescope Blue Moons 2010–2015…Brewer's: Blue Moon
Once in a blue moon. Very rarely indeed. On December 10th, 1883, we had a “blue moon.” The winter was unusually mild. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Blue…Brewer's: Harvest Moon
The full moon nearest the autumnal equinox. The peculiarity of this moon is that it rises for several days nearly at sunset, and about the same time. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Hunter's Moon
(The). The month or moon following the “harvest moon” (q.v.). Hunting does not begin until after harvest. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hunters and…Brewer's: Moon-calf
is an inanimate, shapeless mass (Pliny; Natural History, x. 64). This abortion was supposed to be produced by the influence of the moon. The primary meaning of calf is not the young of a…Brewer's: Moon-drop
In Latin, virus lunare, a vaporous drop supposed to be shed by the moon on certain herbs and other objects, when influenced by incantations. Upon the corner of the moon, There hangs a…Brewer's: Moon-maker
[Sagendë Nah], a surname given to the Veiled Prophot q.v.), who caused a moon to issue from a deep well, so brilliant that the real moon was eclipsed by it. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Moon-rakers
The people of Wiltshire are so called. In the “good old times” they were noted smugglers, and one day, seeing the coastguard on the watch, they sunk in the sea some smuggled whisky. When…Brewer's: Moon's Men
Thieves and highway-men who ply their trade by night. “The fortune of us that are but Moon's-men doth ebb and flow like the sea.” —Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., i. 2. Source: Dictionary of…Trending
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