Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A luminous spot in the sky due to the refraction and reflection of the moon's rays by minute ice-crystals floating in the air. See
paraselene and sun-dog.
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Examples
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Then they show their tokened war-shields to the moon-dog and the stars,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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A pair of wolves are on their track, _Sköll_ dogging the steps of the sun, _Hati_ of the moon: they come of a giant race, the mightiest of whom, Mânagarmr (moon-dog), apparently but another name for Hati, is sure some day to _overtake and swallow the moon_. "
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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