Definitions
distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine
Word origin
From Middle English mone schyne, mone-schyne, moone shone; equivalent to moon + shine. Illegally distilled liquor is so named because its manufacture may be conducted without artificial light at night. The verb sense is a back-formation from moonshiner.
Used in a sentence
“[…] her Waggon Spokes made of long Spinners legs: the Couer of the wings of Graſhoppers, her Traces of the ſmalleſt Spiders web, her coullers of the Moonſhines watry Beames […]”
“[…] O Nymph more bright than moon-ſhine night, like Kidlings blithe and merry […]”
“In mist or cloud on mast or shroud / It perch’d for vespers nine, / Whiles all the night thro’ fog smoke-white / Glimmer’d the white moon-shine.”
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01“Illicit liquor”9 letters
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