LUNAR
\lˈuːnə], \lˈuːnə], \l_ˈuː_n_ə]\
Definitions of LUNAR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Resembling the moon; orbed.
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Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.
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A lunar distance.
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The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; - called also semilunar, and intermedium.
By Oddity Software
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Resembling the moon; orbed.
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Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.
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A lunar distance.
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The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; - called also semilunar, and intermedium.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Relating to the moon or to a month. 2. Resembling the moon, especially a half-moon, semilunar, crescentic. 3. Relating to the os lunatum, or semilunar bone of the carpus. 4. Relating to silver (the moon was the symbol of silver in alchemy).
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Pertaining to the moon; measured by the revolutions of the moon; resembling the moon; influenced by the moon. Lunar caustic, nitrate of silver. Lunar cycle, the period of time after which the new moons return on the same days of the year. Lunar month, the time in which the moon completes a revolution about the earth. Lunar observation, an observation of the moon's distance from a star to find the longitude. Lunar rainbow, a faint rainbow occasioned by the refraction of the light of the moon. Lunar year, the period of 12 synodic lunar months, being about 354 1/2 days.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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