Chapter Montfauçon to Moon of Bright Nights of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

etc. Bribes, he tells us, were hung on gold and silver hooks; princes’ favours were kept in bellows; wasted talent was stored away in urns; but every article was duly labelled.—Ariosto: Orlando Furioso, xviii. (1516).

Moon-Drop (in Latin, virus lunare), a vaporous drop supposed to be shed by the moon on certain herbs and other objects, when powerfully influenced by incantations. Lucan says, Erictho used it: Virus large lunare ministrat.

Hecate. Upon the corner of the moon
There hangs a vapourous drop, profound;
I’ll catch it ere it come to ground.

Shakespeare: Macbeth, act iii. sc. 5 (1606).

Moon of Bright Nights, a synonym for April; the moon of leaves, a synonym for May; the moon of strawberries is June; the moon of falling leaves is September; and the moon of snow-shoes is the synonym for November.—Longfellow: Hiawatha (1855).