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half-moon    Audio Help   [haf-moon, hahf-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
2.the phase of the moon at this time.
3.something having the shape of a half-moon or crescent.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME]
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half-moon   (hāf'mōōn', häf'-)
n.  
  1. The moon when only half its disk is illuminated.
  2. Something, such as the lunula of a fingernail, that is shaped like a crescent.

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half-moon

noun
1. the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail 
2. the time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated 

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Half Moon Bay, CA (city, FIPS 31708) Location: 37.47012 N, 122.43690 W
Population (1990): 8886 (3402 housing units)
Area: 16.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 94019

Half Moon, NC (CDP, FIPS 28900) Location: 34.82701 N, 77.46649 W
Population (1990): 6306 (2106 housing units)
Area: 16.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Half Way, MO Zip code(s): 65663

Moon Twp, PA Zip code(s): 15108

Moon, VA Zip code(s): 23119

Carnot-Moon, PA (CDP, FIPS 11348) Location: 40.51857 N, 80.21416 W
Population (1990): 10187 (4256 housing units)
Area: 12.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Half-moon

Half"-moon`\, n. 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. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.

4. (Zo["o]l.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (C[ae]siosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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