What's the difference between moonseed and moonshine?
Moonseed
Definition:
(n.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
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Moonshine
Definition:
(n.) A month.
(n.) The light of the moon.
(n.) Hence, show without substance or reality.
(n.) A preparation of eggs for food.
(a.) Moonlight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Risk of ESRD was significantly related to phenacetin or acetaminophen consumption (odds ratio(OR) = 2.66), moonshine consumption (OR = 2.43), a family history of renal disease (OR = 9.30); and regular occupational exposures to solvents (OR = 1.51) or silica (OR = 1.67).
(2) At the bar, we sit next to Dylan Laurino, @juicymerchguy , who insists we try malort – a local moonshine made from grapefruit.
(3) Lead poisoning arising from "moonshine whiskey" drinking has been associated with a rise in plasma renin activity.
(4) He explored moonshine – as they all did, except for Tom."
(5) A patient with chronic renal failure, a strong history of moonshine abuse, and excessive urinary lead excretion had clinical and laboratory measurements compatible with combined hyperkalemic distal renal tubular acidosis and the syndrome of selective aldosterone deficiency.
(6) He has his first drink of moonshine, his first kiss.
(7) Renin activity and aldosterone were evaluated relative to potassium levels and lead intoxication in 33 patients with a history of "moonshine" ingestion.
(8) But Bernard Jenkin, the former shadow defence secretary, sided with Lawson, saying it was "moonshine" for No 10 to assume Cameron could reform the EU.
(9) Miners long used moonshine, marijuana and prescription pills to cope with the stresses and pain of work underground.
(10) He has made important contributions to many branches of pure maths, such as group theory, number theory and geometry and, with collaborators, has also come up with wonderful-sounding concepts like surreal numbers, the grand antiprism and monstrous moonshine.
(11) The use of automobile radiators containing lead-soldered parts in the illicit distillation of alcohol (i.e., "moonshine") is an important source of lead poisoning among persons in some rural Alabama counties.
(12) They were more likely to be black and have gout than those denying moonshine use.
(13) And Jebediah means you’re just a complete cracker running a moonshine still in Dalton, Georgia.” Even before Jeb Bush , the name comes freighted with assumptions, like that you’re a hillbilly, or from a super religious family.
(14) They run a modestly successful bootlegging racket and are respected and feared in their community but, with Prohibition-era America thirsty for as much moonshine as their makeshift stills can churn out, they could be achieving so much more.
(15) The day began with an architectural boat tour, and finished with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and grapefruit moonshine that tastes like garbage.
(16) He said: forget for now the moonshine of themes; you’re only just beginning to learn how to read a book.
(17) This was the iconography.” By the time Johnson arrived a different image had taken hold – that of the anti-modern, moonshine swilling, gun toting, backwards “hillbilly”.
(18) Nearly two thirds of 200 male hypertensive veterans surveyed in Philadelphia admitted to past ingestion of illicit alcoholic beverages (moonshine), many drinking it recently, and in the North.
(19) None of these patients had known histories of occupational or other potential sources of lead exposure, but all reported recent histories of moonshine ingestion.
(20) The clinical and pathological findiing in an adult with lead encephalopathy due to moonshine consumption are presented.