moon (occurs six times in the sense ‘month’)
1.
phr. “moon's
men, minions of the moon,” ‘nightwalkers’, robbers by night 1H4 I. ii. 35; “go by the ,” be a ‘night-walker’ I. ii. 15;
“under” or “beneath the ,” on earth Ham. IV. vii. 145, Lr. IV. vi. 27, Ant. IV. xiii. [xv.] 68; “below
the ,”
earthly H8 III. ii. 135.
2.
typifying a place
impossible to reach
2H6 III. i. 158
“dogged York, that
reaches at the moon.”
3.
symbolical of or
identified with Diana, goddess of chastity
MND. I. i. 73
“the cold fruitless
,”
II. i. 156, 162, Mer.V. V. i. 109, 1H4 I. ii. 32, Cor. I. i. 263,
V. iii. 65
“Publicola, The moon of
Rome.”
