moonshine
/ˈmuːnʃaɪn/ verb C2- To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits. · His grandfather started to moonshine when things got really bad in 1933; when he got caught moonshining, he did a bit of time.
- To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.
He/she/it moonshines · Past moonshined · Past participle moonshined · -ing form moonshining
Verb forms
- Base form
- moonshine
- He/she/it
- moonshines
- Past
- moonshined
- Past participle
- moonshined
- -ing form
- moonshining
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It was as if all the dreams, sleeping and waking, of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine.
I wouldn’t be a bit afraid, and it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don’t you think?
Allan at the manse, knelt sweetly by her open window in a great sheen of moonshine and murmured a prayer of gratitude and aspiration that came straight from her heart.
He was in waiting for them, with the team, however, when it was all over, and the three girls came merrily out into the calm, white moonshine radiance.
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