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 Moon-calfMoon-maker [Sagendë Nah], 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Moon-drop.
 
In Latin, virus lunre, a vaporous drop supposed to be shed by the moon on certain herbs and other objects, when influenced by incantations.   1
       
“Upon the corner of the moon,
There hangs a vaporous drop profound;
I’ll catch it ere it come to ground.”
       
Shakespeare: Macbeth, iii, 5.
 


 Moon-calfMoon-maker [Sagendë Nah], 

 
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