Word Meanings - LUNARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lunar. Fuller.

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• 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
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• FULLERY
  The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
• LUNARY
  Lunar. Fuller.
• LUNARIAN
  An inhabitant of the moon.
• 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
• INTERLUNAR; INTERLUNARY
  Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible. Milton.
• PLENILUNARY
  Of or pertaining to the full moon. Sir T. Browne.
• SUBLUNARY
  Any worldly thing.
• SUPRALUNAR; SUPRALUNARY
  Beyond the moon; hence, very lofty.
• SEMILUNARY
  Semilunar.
• SUPERLUNAR; SUPERLUNARY
  Being above the moon; not belonging to this world; -- opposed to sublunary. The head that turns at superlunar things. Pope.
• SCAPHOLUNAR
  Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus. -- n.
• NOVILUNAR
  Of or pertaining to the new moon.
• TRANSLUNARY
  Being or lying beyond the moon; hence, ethereal; -- opposed to sublunary. Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave, translunary things That the first poets had. Drayton.