Word Meanings - LUNAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations. 2. Resembling the moon; orbed. Dryden. 3. Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month. 4. Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar

Additional info about word: LUNAR

1. Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations. 2. Resembling the moon; orbed. Dryden. 3. Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month. 4. Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs. Bacon. Lunar caustic , silver nitrate prepared to be used as a cautery; -- so named because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists. -- Lunar cycle. Same as Metonic cycle. See under Cycle. -- Lunar distance, the angular distance of the moon from the sun, a star, or a planet, employed for determining longitude by the lunar method. -- Lunar method, the method of finding a ship's longitude by comparing the local time of taking a given lunar distance, with the Greenwich time corresponding to the same distance as ascertained from a nautical almanac, the difference of these times being the longitude. -- Lunar month. See Month. -- Lunar observation, an observation of a lunar distance by means of a sextant or circle, with the altitudes of the bodies, and the time, for the purpose of computing the longitude. -- Lunar tables. Tables of the moon's motions, arranged for computing the moon's true place at any time past or future. Tables for correcting an observed lunar distance on account of refraction and parallax. -- Lunar year, the period of twelve lunar months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, and 34.38 seconds.

Related words: (words related to LUNAR)

• ORBED
  Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• MEASURING
  Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured.
• ORBITARY
  Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
• LUNAR
  1. Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations. 2. Resembling the moon; orbed. Dryden. 3. Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month. 4. Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar
• ORBIC; ORBICAL
  Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular. Bacon.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• ORBULINA
  A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.
• MONTHLING
  That which is a month old, or which lives for a month. Wordsworth.
• ORBATION
  The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement. Bp. Hall.
• INFLUENCIVE
  Tending toinfluence; influential.
• MEASURABLE
  1. Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation. 2. Moderate; temperate; not excessive. Of his diet measurable was he. Chaucer. -- Meas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Meas"ur*a*bly, adv. Yet do it measurably, as it becometh
• ORBY
  Orblike; having the course of an orb; revolving. "Orby hours." Chapman.
• ORBIT
  The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon. 2. An orb or ball. Roll the lucid orbit of an eye. Young.
• ORBICULATION
  The state or quality of being orbiculate; orbicularness. Dr. H. More.
• ORBITELAE
  A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.
• MEASURELESS
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
• ORBICULATE; ORBICULATED
  Made, or being, in the form of an orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline. Orbiculate leaf , a leaf whose outline is nearly circular.
• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• FENCE MONTH
  the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or
• SCORBUTE
  Scurry. Purchas.
• SEMILUNAR
  Shaped like a half moon. Semilunar bone , a bone of the carpus; the lunar. See Lunar, n. -- Semilunar, or Sigmoid, valves , the valves at the beginning of the aorta and of the pulmonary artery which prevent the blood from flowing back into the
• SUBLUNAR; SUBLUNARY
  Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• CORBIESTEP
  One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.
• MOORBAND
  See MOORPAN
• POORBOX
  A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.
• IMMEASURABLY
  In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.
• HYDROSORBIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from sorbic acid when this takes up hydrogen; as, hydrosorbic acid.
• ANTISCORBUTICAL
  Antiscorbutic.
• SEA-ORB
  A globefish.
• SEMIORBICULAR
  Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.
• MORBOSITY
  A diseased state; unhealthiness. Sir T. Browne.
• CORBELING; CORBELLING
  Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.