Definition of "moonrise" [moon•rise]

• The event or time of the appearance of the moon above the eastern horizon. (noun)

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• "It was night, and she must have lain some time there all alone, for there was a silvery, misty something through the darkness, the white dawn of moonrise, which is not like the dawn of day, nor like the departing twilight."
• ""Higgs told me," he said, "that he was to be thrown to the lions two hours after moonrise, which is within fifteen minutes or so."
• "Weird... on December 18 I was out in my front yard shooting moonrise pictures, an eerie red crescent moon was rising..."