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Mooner. 349 Moon-man.
1786. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1881. Lex. Bal., s.v.
M 00 N ER, subs. (common).—An
idler ; a GAPE-SEED (q.v.).
MOON-EYED, adj. (old). —See quots.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, S.V.
MOON-EYED HEN. A squinting wench.
1792. A. YOUNG, Travels in France
(1787-9), p. 75. The English mare that
carries me. . . is going rapidly blind.
She is MOON-EYED.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1859. MATSELL, Vocabulum, S.V.
MOON-EYED HEN. A squinting prostitute.
MOONFLAW. MOONFLAW IN THE
BRAIN, verb. phr. (old).—An
idiosyncrasy ; a craze. See BEE
IN THE BONNET.
1659. BROME, Queen and Concubine.
I fear she has a MOONFLAW in her
brains ; She chides and fights that none
can look upon her.
MOONLIGHT (or MOONSHINE), subs.
(old).—i. Smuggled spirits. [From
the night-work of smugglers].
Verb. (Irish).—See quot.
1888. Daily Telegrafih, 21 Nov.
Colletty, the rent-warner, was a witness
of a very unsatisfactory sort, and after
he had deposed to his experience of
being MOONLIGHTED in the thigh—Moonlighters,
it appears, generally giving a
grain or two, as another witness put it,
in the legs of their victims.
MOONLIGHT ON THE LAKE,
subs. phr. (American).—Sarsaparilla.
See DRINKS.
A RUSH FOR MOONI IGHT, subs.
phr. (American University).—An
attempt at the prize for elocution.
MOONLIGHTER, subs. (COP.1111011).— I .
A prostitute. For synonyms see
BARRACK-HACK and TART.
2. in pl. (Irish).—Men (c.
1880) enforcing the dec:ees of
secret societies by violence.
Their act-Ion was chiefly confined
to the western counties, and their
raids were nocturnal, whence the
name. Their notices were signed
Captain Moonlight.'
1882. Saturday Review, 30 Sep.,
p. 422. Taking MOONLIGHTERS under his
direct protection.
3. The same as MOONSHINER
(q.v.).
MOONLIGHT-FLITTING, subs. (common).
See SHOOTING THE MOON
(q.v.). Also LONDON-FLITTING-.
1802. CAMPBELL, 7ourney, ii. i. He
made what is termed a MOON-LIGHT
FLITTING.
1892. Cassell's Sat. yl., 28 Sep.,
p. 26, col. 3. He had done what is
known in Lancashire as a MOONLEET FLIT,
or, in other words, removed quietly in
the dead of night, that nobody knew
where he had gone.
MOONLIGHTING, subs. (Irish.—Play-
ing the MOONLIGHTER (q.v.).
1888. Daily Chronicle, 17 Jan.
The prisoners, with two other men, were
arrested on a charge of MOONLIGHTING in
county Clare.
MOON-MAN, Subs. (old).—See quots.
1603-8. DEKKER, Lanthorne and
Candlelight, viii. A MOONEMAN signifies
in English a madman . . . By a byname
they are called gypsies, they call
themselves Egiptians, others in mockery
call them mooNEmEN.
1690. B. E., Diet. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. GnosE, Vulg. Tongue, S.V.
MOON-MEN. Gypsies.
1811. Lex. Bal. , s.v.
3. (old).—A nocturnal robber.
Also MINIONS OF THE MOON.
1597. SHAKSPEARE, r Henry IV,
i. 2. The fortune of us that are MOON'S
MEN cloth ebb and flow like the sea.