Word Meanings - MOONSHINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The light of the moon. 2. Hence, show without substance or reality. 3. A month. Shak. 4. A preparation of eggs for food.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOONSHINE)

• Cobweb
• Trifle
• cipher
• moonshine
• prejudice
• bugbear
• phantasy
• caprice
• Smoke
• Fumigation
• fumes
• vapor
• insubstantiality
• nothingness
• triviality
• trifle

Related words: (words related to MOONSHINE)

• PHANTASY
  See FANCY
• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• VAPORATE
  To emit vapor; to evaporate.
• VAPORY
  1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
• BUGBEAR
  To alarm with idle phantoms.
• VAPORIFORM
  Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
• VAPOR
  Any substance in the gaseous, or aëriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid. Note: The term vapor is sometimes used in a more extended sense, as identical with gas; and the difference between the two is not
• INSUBSTANTIALITY
  Unsubstantiality; unreality.
• CIPHER
  A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
• COBWEB
  The European spotted flycatcher. Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. Beck. Draper's Dict. Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn. Beau. & Fl. Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in which threads of cobwed are
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• COBWEBBY
  Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• VAPOROUS
  1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable
• SMOKEHOUSE
  A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
• SMOKELESS POWDER
  A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
• VAPORATION
  The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
• TRIVIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. Lyon Playfair.
• VAPORIFIC
  Producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• EVAPORATOR
  An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
• BESMOKE
  1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.
• EVAPOROMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• DO-NOTHINGISM; DO-NOTHINGNESS
  Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. Carlyle. Miss Austen.
• INDECIPHERABLE
  Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.
• EVAPORATIVE
  Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.