or moonshine, subs. (old).—1. Smuggled spirits. [From the night-work of smugglers.]
Verb. (Irish).—See quot.
1888. Daily Telegraph, 21 Nov. Colletty, the rent-warner, was a witness of a very unsatisfactory sort, and after he had deposed to his experience of being MOONLIGHTED in the thigh—Moonlighters, it appears, generally giving a grain or two, as another witness put it, in the legs of their victims.
MOONLIGHT ON THE LAKE, subs. phr. (American).—Sarsaparilla. See DRINKS.
A RUSH FOR MOONLIGHT, subs. phr. (American university).—An attempt at the prize for elocution.
