a. [ L. lunaris, fr. luna the moon. See Luna, and cf. Lunary. ]
Lunar caustic (Med. Chem.),
Lunar cycle.
Lunar distance,
Lunar method,
Lunar month.
Lunar observation,
Lunar tables.
Lunar year,
n.
prop. n. A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family, including the herb
n. [ See Lunar, Luna. ] An inhabitant of the moon. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. lunaire. See Lunar. ] Lunar. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. lunaire. ] (Bot.)
a. [ L. novus new + luna the moon. ] Of or pertaining to the new moon. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to the full moon. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Scaphoid + lunar. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus. --
Scapholunar bone,
n. (Anat.) The semilunar bone. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Shaped like a half moon. [ 1913 Webster ]
Semilunar bone (Anat.),
Semilunar valves,
Sigmoid valves
a. Semilunar. [ 1913 Webster ]
All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are under. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Any worldly thing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
The head that turns at superlunar things. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. trans- + L. luna moon. ] Being or lying beyond the moon; hence, ethereal; -- opposed to sublunary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs,
Had in him those brave, translunary things
That the first poets had. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]