moonrise

From moon +‎ rise.

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moonrise (plural moonrises)

1. The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon.
   • 1742, Matthew Towers (translator), The Lyric Pieces of Horace, Dublin, Volume I, Ode III, p. 17,

     Venus now re-assembles her Choirs of Virgins at Moon-rise, and leads the Ball.

   • 1804, Anna Maria Porter, The Lake of Killarney, London: Longman & Rees, Volume I, p. 23,

     Shooting, hunting, and cricket, were pursued with the eagerness of laborious occupations: often has he rambled about from day-break to moon-rise, in search of game; and then returned to Mr. ONiel’s, pale with fatigue, and sick with fasting.

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 7,

     Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise.

   • 1909, Edith Wharton, “The Mortal Lease” V, in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, New York: Scribner’s, p. 41,

     Do I not know, some wingèd things from far

     Are borne along illimitable night

     To dance their lives out in a single flight

     Between the moonrise and the setting star?

   • 1917, James Joyce, “She Weeps over Rahoon” in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume XI, No. II, November, 1917, p. 71,

     Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling

     Where my dark lover lies.

     Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling

     At grey moonrise.

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