moonshine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The light of the moon.

   “[…] her Waggon Spokes made of long Spinners legs: the Couer of the wings of Graſhoppers, her Traces of the ſmalleſt Spiders web, her coullers of the Moonſhines watry Beames […]”

2. isim The light reflected off Earth's Moon.
3. isim The light reflected off a moon.
4. isim High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.

   “They watered down the moonshine.”

5. isim Smuggled spirits, often with a specific sense; (Kent, Sussex) white brandy; (Yorkshire) gin.
6. isim Nonsense.

   “He was talking moonshine.”

7. isim A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
8. isim A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
9. isim A month.

   “[…] wherefore ſhould I / Stand in the plague of cuſtome, and permit / The curioſity of Nations to depriue me? / For that I am ſome twelue, or fourteene Moonſhines / Lag of a brother?”

10. fiil To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.

    “His grandfather started to moonshine when things got really bad in 1933; when he got caught moonshining, he did a bit of time.”

11. fiil To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.

    “A more practical critic notes that paleolithic man had a very sweet tooth, which he sated with honey. Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew. Booze and junk food, in other words, are hardly modern inventions.”