mooned, adj.
Forms:
15 moond, 15– mooned. (Show Less)
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moon n.1, -ed suffix2.
Chiefly poet. Now rare.
†1. Insane, lunatic, mad. Obs. rare—1.
a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew
(1843)
iv. 24
Al yt weer..other sprited, or moond [Gk. σεληνιαζομένους], or palseid.
a1557—a1557(Hide quotations)
2. Ornamented with moons or crescents; having moon-shaped markings.
1599 J. Sylvester tr. J. Du Nesme Miracle Peace in Fraunce 43
The Mahomite..in Vienna Plaine, His Mooned standards hath already pight.
1630 M. Drayton Noahs Floud in Muses Elizium 99
When with his mooned traine, The strutting Peacock..Flutters into the Arke.
1868 W. B. Tegetmeier Pigeons xxi. 174
The Swiss and Mooned pigeons have a crescent-shaped coloured mark on the breast.
1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche ix. v. 106
'Twas then he wrought this work..Embossed with rich design, a moonèd car.
1599—1885(Hide quotations)
3. Resembling the moon; esp. shaped like a crescent moon, crescent-shaped.
1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. H4v
Goe: cut the salt fome with your mooned keeles.
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad
(1778)
i. 20
Their bowsprits pointing to the shore, (A safe moon'd bay).
1817 Shelley Laon & Cythna xii. xiii. 256
The brazen rein she flung Upon his neck, and kissed his mooned brow.
1991 T. Barnes Midsummer Killing
(BNC)
204
She began to read by the mooned light of the torch.
1607—1991(Hide quotations)
4. Accompanied or attended by the moon or moonlight.
1645 Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxii, in Poems 10
Mooned Ashtaroth, Heav'ns Queen and Mother both.
a1849 T. L. Beddoes Poems
(1851)
I. 96
Be pale thou mooned midnight!
1645—a1849(Hide quotations)
5. Moonlit.
1831 E. Bulwer-Lytton Siamese Twins 258
Dreams he of nymph half-hid in sparry cave, Or Naiad rising from her mooned wave?
1916 E. Blunden Harbingers 62
Lingering along the blue stream's mooned curves.
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. ii. 127
The long return through night-time roads across the mooned or unmooned sleeping land.
1831—1940(Hide quotations)
Special uses
† mooned man n. Obs. rare = man in the moon n.
?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. Iv
And oftentimes the Mooned man outspies, the Eauedropper.
?1606—?1606(Hide quotations)