English word moonshine comes from English moon, English shine
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| moon | English (eng) | (cartomancy) The thirty-second Lenormand card.. (literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.. Any natural satellite of a planet.. (with "the") Earth's only natural satellite.. A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.. The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot. (intransitive, US, colloquial) (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated [...] |
| shine | English (eng) | (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.. (intransitive) To emit light.. (intransitive) To reflect light.. [...] |
| moonshine | English (eng) | (US) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.. (colloquial) nonsense. (informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.. (literally) The light of the moon; moonlight.. (mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.. (obsolete) A month. |