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Definition of Half-moon

1. Noun. The crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail.

2. Noun. The time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated.

Definition of Half-moon

1. Noun. the moon, in its first or last quarter, when only half the face is illuminated ¹

2. Noun. anything shaped like a crescent, especially the base of a fingernail ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Half-moon

1. 1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. 2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. "See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings." (Milton) 3. An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; now called a ravelin. 4. A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Synonym: medialuna. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-moon

half-integer half-integers half-intensity half-jacket half-length half-life half-light half-line half-lives half-long vowel

half-mast half-measure half-metal half-metallic half-monthly half-moon (current term) half-moons half-naked half-nephew half-niece

half-noble half-nobles half-open half-open interval half-past half-pay half-pint half-pints half-pipe half-pipes

Literary usage of Half-moon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... having two bunions flat in it, and ending upon a large half-moon before the Castle-gate; which, with King Charles's two half-moons without the Park-gate ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"Plate showing the central position and half moon formed arrangement of the bismuth media in the lower pole of the extremely ectatic stomach of high grade ..."

3. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 by John Franklin Jameson (1909)
"The country of which we propose to speak, was first discovered in the year of our Lord 1609, by the ship Half Moon, of which Hendrik Hutson was master and ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... "De Halve Maan " (The Half Moon) to the new continent and was the first to ascend, as far as the site of Albany, the river which now bears his name. ..."

5. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"... Proceed* to Half Moon and ... Half Moon the L'Tth April 177S. Sir, I arriv'd here this Day with Coll. ..."

6. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"As the Half-Moon passed on up the river she was occasionally saluted with flights of arrows, and sometimes these volleys were answered ..."

7. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"The common men, who know very little of fortification, confound the ravelin and the half-moon together, though they are very different things ; not in their ..."

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