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Earthlight
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."