Mood"y (-), a. [Compar. Moodier (?); superl. Moodiest.] [AS. mdig
courageous.] 1. Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind
which are unamiable or depressed.
2. Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and
pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent."
Rowe.
Arouse thee from thy moody dream!
Sir W. Scott.
Syn. -- Gloomy; pensive; sad; fretful; capricious.
{ Moo"lah (?), Mool"lah }, n. See Mollah.
Mool"ley (?), n. Same as Mulley.
Moon (mn), n. [OE. mone, AS. mna; akin to D. maan, OS. & OHG. mno, G.
mond, Icel. mni, Dan. maane, Sw. måne, Goth. mna, Lith. men, L. mensis
month, Gr. mh`nh moon, mh`n month, Skr. ms moon, month; prob. from a
root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. m to measure), from its serving to
measure the time. √271. Cf. Mete to measure, Menses, Monday,
Month.] 1. The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the
satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from
the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness
of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance
from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of
the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.
The crescent moon, the diadem of night.
Cowper.
2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the
solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit;
a month. Shak.