luna

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A luna moth

   A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.

   • “Gee,” whispered Oliver. He sat there staring. “A luna! I never thought I’d see a real luna!”
   • On the previous evening we had discovered with delight a luna with the fabulous moons, one on each pale green wing.
   • Spray BT on your young oak to protect against gypsy moths, and you wipe out future lunas, cecropias, and everything else on the leaves, along with the pests.
2. 2

   A lunette

   A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.

   • The luna, which is a piece of glass in the shape of a moon, contains the Blessed Sacrament, previously consecrated. The luna is then placed in the middle of the sunburst of the monstrance.
3. 3

   A foreman on a plantation.

   • There are several reasons why the Hawaiian-born Japanese boys and girls do not take kindly to plantation labor, but one of the chief reasons is the objection to the kind of lunas who oversee the work of the laborers.
   • After the day was over I went to the luna to count my day but he would not. Then I went to him the second time and he said he would not put it down.
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   1. 4

      The sister of Aurora and Sol

      The sister of Aurora and Sol; the goddess of the moon; equivalent to the Greek Selene.

   2. 5

      The Earth's Moon.

      • Luna that ne'er shines by day.
      • He has but little prudence, no apprehension of consequences, and none of that melancholy which in tempraments of Luna and Venus is generally felt, and from which he is saved by the combination of Mars and Mercury.
      • The different visible shapes of Luna are called her phases.
   3. 6

      A female given name from Latin.

      • - - - and it so happened, that in one of old Bryan's daughters named Luna, or more familiarly Loony, he perceived, or thought he perceived, some imaginary similarity in form and air to the lovely apparition.
      • A few seconds later, Luna Lovegood emerged, trailing behind the rest of the class, a smudge of earth on her nose, and her hair tied in a knot on the top of her head.
   4. 7

      Argent (silver), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain…

      Argent (silver), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.

      • 4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales.
      • 8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh; 3d, ente en Point, Mars, an Horse currant Luna, for Saxony.
   5. 8

      Silver.

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