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Mooned

Inro with gourd plant, netsuke with phoenix, ojime with boy and moon
Inro with gourd plant, netsuke with phoenix, ojime with boy and moon
Inro with netsuke and ojime. The five-part inro is decorated with gourd plants in takamakie on a gold-sprinkled background; the gourds (partly in silver) and a fence (in mother of pearl) are inlaid. The netsuke is decorated with a phoenix; the ojime is cut into a little boy looking at the moon. (the netsuke and ojime were added later)
Illustrations
Model of filter machine for purifying drinking water, painted brown. It is a flat, square container that stands on a narrow side. Inside, a piping system has been installed: a thick pipe with a narrow branch runs diagonally from top to the bottom, where a narrow horizontal pipe connects to it, which has an outlet in the side; on the other side a narrow vertical pipe with an open end at the bottom runs from slightly above the bottom upwards, where there is a drain pipe in the side and above it a small compartment where the pipe ends and is finished with a basket. Almost identical to NG-MC-577-1.
Model of filter machine for purifying drinking water, painted brown. It is a flat, square container that stands on a narrow side. Inside, a piping system has been installed: a thick pipe with a narrow branch runs diagonally from top to the bottom, where a narrow horizontal pipe connects to it, which has an outlet in the side; on the other side a narrow vertical pipe with an open end at the bottom runs from slightly above the bottom upwards, where there is a drain pipe in the side and above it a small compartment where the pipe ends and is finished with a basket. Almost identical to NG-MC-577-1.
Porcelain dish, with a ring-shaped elevation on the shelf, painted in underglaze blue. In the center the moon hare in the raised medallion, surrounded by a scene: a rider and a standard-bearer in a landscape; the edge with napkin work alternated with cartouches with fruit branch; on the back four valuables (artemisia leaf, pearl, diamond, scroll). Marked on the bottom with the four-character mark of Emperor Chenghua in a double circle. Blue White.
Dish with the moon hare, rider and standard bearer
The goddess Diana as Luna (the moon), riding on the clouds on his chariot of victory, which is drawn by nymphs with a bow and arrow. Above the center of the constellation Cancer. At the bottom a coastal landscape with the ports of Venice, Istanbul and the Netherlands. Many boats sail at sea. Trade is conducted in the cities. Below the performance a poem in Latin about the influence of the moon on the coastal regions of the Netherlands and the Mediterranean. This print is part of an album.
The goddess Diana as Luna (the moon), riding on the clouds on his chariot of victory, which is drawn by nymphs with a bow and arrow. Above the center of the constellation Cancer. At the bottom a coastal landscape with the ports of Venice, Istanbul and the Netherlands. Many boats sail at sea. Trade is conducted in the cities. Below the performance a poem in Latin about the influence of the moon on the coastal regions of the Netherlands and the Mediterranean. This print is part of an album.
A circular disk with a hare with a mortar, attached to a wooden rod with strips of paper (gohei). In the foreground a bronze bell with rope and a court cap (eboshi). The title comes from chapter 73 of the Tales of Ise and is the thoughts of a man walking past a woman's house. He can't send her a message, but thinks: I can see you with my eyes but my hands can't touch you - you really are like the cassia in the moon. With two poems.
Chapter 73: My hands cannot touch you like the cassia in the moon
Plaster model of the moon crater Tycho, seen from above
Overlapping craters of the moon, seen from above
Full moon
Baluster-shaped lidded pot with long, spreading neck, painted in underglaze blue and gold on the glaze. The pot is covered with bleu poudré (powder blue) and decorated with three rows of compartments: the bottom row has a different flowering plant or tree in each compartment near a rock with insects; the second row is also with four different flowering plants (lotus, chrysanthemum, prunus, peony) with birds and / or butterflies. Around the neck four compartments with different flower sprays and butterflies; a double circle on the bottom. The lid with worn-out decoration of four compartments with flowering plants on a rock and decorative edge. Lid has been restored. Bleu poudré with gold.
Baluster-shaped lidded pot with long, spreading neck, painted in underglaze blue and gold on the glaze. The pot is covered with bleu poudré (powder blue) and decorated with three rows of compartments: the bottom row has a different flowering plant or tree in each compartment near a rock with insects; the second row is also with four different flowering plants (lotus, chrysanthemum, prunus, peony) with birds and / or butterflies. Around the neck four compartments with different flower sprays and butterflies; a double circle on the bottom. The lid with worn-out decoration of four compartments with flowering plants on a rock and decorative edge. Lid has been restored. Bleu poudré with gold.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Uranus has 27 moons
  1. Mooned
    Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon. "Sharpening in mooned Mooned Ashtaroth."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
If you pile up the cans of Yeo's products, you would be able to reach the moon.
  1. mooned
    Having the moon as symbol; identified with the moon.
  2. mooned
    Marked or spotted as with moons.
  3. mooned
    Resembling the moon; crescent-shaped.
  4. mooned
    Furnished with a moon; bearing the Turkish symbol of the crescent.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
  1. (adj) Mooned
    of or like the moon: having the figure of the moon marked upon it
Quotations
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
Robert Townsend
William Blake
If the Sun and Moon should doubt, They'd immediately Go out
William Blake
Havelock Ellis
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
Les Brown
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
Confucius
Olive Schreiner
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.
Olive Schreiner
Idioms

Don't know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon - If you don't know what to do, you don't know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon.

Hung the moon - If you refer to someone as having hung the moon, you think they are extremely wonderful, or amazing, or good.

Many moons ago - A very long time ago.

Once in a blue moon - If something happens once in a blue moon, it happens very rarely indeed.

Over the moon - If you are over the moon about something, you are overjoyed.

Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. móna; cf. Ger. mond, L. mensis, Gr. mēnē.

Usage in the news

Fort Greene musician celebrates release of his near-Big Band's jazz CD, 'Underneath a Brooklyn Moon. brooklynpaper.com

On a balmy summer day 10 years ago, President Bill Clinton announced an accomplishment that was likened to landing men on the moon: The sequencing of a nearly complete human genome. money.cnn.com

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is always taking beautiful pictures of Saturn and its moons -- the JPL team even won the NASM Trophy award this year for their work. airspacemag.com

Regulus, Antaries & the October moon. tip.org

12 attorneys apply to fill General Sessions Court judge vacancy since Judge Bob Moon's passing. timesfreepress.com

To celebrate the release of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Chevrolet will build a 2012 Camaro Bumblebee Edition. oldcarsweekly.com

Joshua Berman is the author of "Moon Nicaragua" and "Moon Belize". denverpost.com

2008 Valley of the Moon Cabernet Sauvignon . nightclub.com

Winemaker Introduces 'Dark Side of the Moon' Cabernet Sauvignon . guitarworld.com

The half moon has been nice and orange the past few nights as we head into yet another full moon this coming Friday. columbian.com

This will be a "blue moon" as we enjoyed a full moon on Aug 1. columbian.com

Saturn's moon Calypso sports that Ore-Ida look. csmonitor.com

New Close-Ups of Saturn's Moons Mimas and Calypso . ired.com

Took Over Bastrop Texas of moon. kvue.com

A group of surfers, mountain bikers and auto racers are turning Half Moon Bay into "Silicon Bay.". abclocal.go.com

Usage in scientific papers

Then, any other space-time event, on Earth, on the Moon, anywhere in the Solar system or in the solar systems in this part of the Galaxy, has its own coordinates attributed.
Using pulsars to define space-time coordinates

Note that these results hold for tournaments of arbitrary cardinality, though they were originally proved for finite tournaments by Moon .
Simple extensions of combinatorial structures

This scenario is substantially different from any of the solar system planets, but could be thought of as a class of bigger, hotter versions of Jupiter’s icy moons.
Three Possible Origins for the Gas Layer on GJ 1214b

The laser pulse was reflected back to the observatory by a reflector on the Moon, which was moving toward the emitter and detector in frame O with a speed v0 due to the rotation of the Earth.
The invariance of the speed of light

This single time of flight measurement was then analyzed in two separate Lorentz frames, O, and a frame S in which the center of the Earth and the center of the Moon were each at rest, but in which the emitter and detector were moving with speed v0 .
The invariance of the speed of light

Usage in literature

We were off Brighton when the moon rose. "A Boy's Voyage Round the World" by The Son of Samuel Smiles

The moon was risen and full. "Harbor Tales Down North" by Norman Duncan

The Big Half Moon is miles from anywhere, except the Little Half Moon. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

In time the moons of Saturn, and the twilight zone of Mercury, and some day the moons of Jupiter. "Space Platform" by Murray Leinster

Clifford, who had first landed on the far side of the Moon. "The Planet Strappers" by Raymond Zinke Gallun

Now, I've heard my Granny say that a long time before her day the Moon got trapped and buried in the bog. "Edmund Dulac’s Fairy-Book" by Edmund Dulac

I shall go when the moon comes up, when the moon comes up into the shady sky. "In The Boyhood of Lincoln" by Hezekiah Butterworth

The moon rose higher and higher. "As We Sweep Through The Deep" by Gordon Stables

The brief epithet for the method of finding the longitude by the moon and sun or moon and stars. "The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth

There was no moon visible, but the moon's light was behind the clouds. "A Son of Hagar" by Sir Hall Caine

Usage in poetry
The moon-cradle's rocking and rocking,
Where a cloud and a cloud goes by:
Silently rocking and rocking,
The moon-cradle out in the sky.
"The Ballad Of Downal Baun" by Padraic Colum Author object (525)
O I will watch the maiden Moon
Dance on the sea with silver shoon;
But with the Queen Moon I will keep
My tryst when all the world's asleep.
"Moon-Lover" by Robert W Service Author object (576)
The mountain smoked beneath the moon.
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.
They fled the hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.
"Over The Misty Mountains Cold" by J R R Tolkien Author object (318)
While 'neath the moon, with moon-white feet,
They go and, chill, a moon-soft music draw
From wan leaf-cricket flutes--the sweet,
Sad dirge of Autumn dying in the shaw.
"Under The Hunter’s Moon" by Madison Julius Cawein Author object (456)
Triumphant stood the moon
In a false and cold and constant noon:
Surely in conflict fell
The true, lost sun of noon;
The golden night of Uriel
Met some white demon of the moon.
"Luna Aeternalis" by Clark Ashton Smith Author object (118)
Nor spring, nor bloom, nor freshness! O come thou!
Bloom, verdure, springtime, all things, call thee now.
Not of the moon so wistful is the sea
As sea and moon and earth and air of thee!
"An Elegy" by Manmohan Ghose