Associations to the word «Moonshine»

Wiktionary

MOONSHINE, noun. (literally) The light of the moon; moonlight.
MOONSHINE, noun. Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process is often conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.
MOONSHINE, noun. (colloquial) nonsense
MOONSHINE, noun. (mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see monstrous moonshine.
MOONSHINE, noun. (US) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
MOONSHINE, noun. (obsolete) A month.

Dictionary definition

MOONSHINE, noun. The light of the Moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the Moon was bright enough to read by".
MOONSHINE, noun. Whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash.
MOONSHINE, verb. Distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine.

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.