What is "moonshine"

Moonshine \Moon"shine`\, n.

1. The light of the moon.

2. Hence, show without substance or reality.

3. A month. [R.]
   --Shak.

4. A preparation of eggs for food. [Obs.]

5. Liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled, especially liquor distilled illegally in rural parts of the southern U. S.

Moonshine \Moon"shine`\, a. Moonlight. [R.]
--Clarendon.

2. Empty; trivial; idle.

3. Designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor; as, moonshine whisky. [Dial. Eng., & Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]

c.1500, "moonlight," from moon (n.) + shine (n.). In figurative use, implying "appearance without substance," from late 15c.; perhaps connected in that sense with notion of "moonshine in water" (see moonraker). Meaning "illicit liquor" is attested from 1785 (earliest reference is to that smuggled on the coasts of Kent and Sussex); moonlight also occasionally was used in this sense early 19c. As a verb from 1883. Related: Moonshiner (1860).

n. 1 (context literally English) The light of the moon; moonlight. 2 Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process is often conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining. 3 (context colloquial English) nonsense 4 (context mathematics English) A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see (w: monstrous moonshine). 5 (context US English) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions. 6 (context obsolete English) A month.

1. n. the light of the moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the moon was bright enough to read by" [syn: moonlight, moon]

2. whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash [syn: bootleg, corn liquor]

v. distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine

Moonshine, white lightning, mountain dew, hooch, homebrew, and white whiskey are terms used to describe high- proof distilled spirits that are generally produced illicitly. Moonshine is typically made with corn mash as the main ingredient. Liquor-control laws in the United States that prohibit moonshining, once consisting of a total ban under the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, now center primarily on evasion of revenue taxation on spiritous and/or intoxicating liquors, and are enforced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of the United States Department of Justice; such enforcers of these laws are known by the often derisive nickname of "revenooers".

"Moonshine" is a single by Savage featuring Akon that was released in 2005. It was also included on Savage's 2008 album Savage Island. The song was certified " Gold" in Australia.

Moonshine is the debut solo album of New Zealand hip-hop artist, Savage released in 2005. The album includes a bonus track featuring Akon. In 2005, it reached number two in the New Zealand charts.

Moonshine is moonlight, the light that reaches Earth from the Moon

Moonshine may also refer to:

• Moonshine, colloquial term for illicitly distilled, illegally produced alcoholic beverages
• Moonshine theory, a mathematical theory
• Umbral moonshine in mathematics

Moonshine is a 1918 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.

While the film is considered incomplete, there are different surviving prints of varying quality. The Kino The Genius of Buster Keaton DVD release presents about 6 minutes and thirty seconds, sourced from the Cineteca Nazionale of Rome.

Moonshine is the eighth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1973.

On 16 October 2015, Earth Recordings reissued the album in digital, CD, and vinyl formats; the latter additionally available as a picture disc.

Moonshine is the 28th album by trumpeter Dave Douglas. It was released on the Greenleaf label in 2007 and features a live performance recorded in a studio in front of an audience by Douglas, Adam Benjamin, DJ Olive, Gene Lake, Marcus Strickland, and Brad Jones.

Moonshine is the fifth album by Canadian singer-songwriter Kate Maki, released in May 2011. The album was released independently on Maki's own Confusion Unlimited label, with distribution by Outside Music.

Guest musicians include Nathan Lawr, Dale Murray and members of Cuff the Duke.

Moonshine is a 2006 film written and directed by Roger Ingraham. It was chosen to screen at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006. It was made on a $9,700 budget including the purchase of a 24p digital camera (Panasonic DVX100). Pre-production took around two years.

The film was Roger Ingraham's first, and is a vampire story based in his hometown of Stafford Springs, Connecticut. Production was 22 days long, with the film containing many landmarks of Stafford. The budget was kept so low largely in part due to the help of the locals, with many citizens of Stafford helping by donating cars for car crash scenes, and with even the town police helping out with the movie.

The film's plot revolves around the disconnection of the protagonist as he suffers the cancer of his mother and the paralysis of his father. After taking a tedious, dead-end job with a chain-smoking manager who regards her employees with disdain, the protagonist eventually takes matters into his own hands, and falls into a horrific chain of events he never thought possible.

"Moonshine" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars for his second studio album Unorthodox Jukebox (2012). It was written by Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Andrew Wyatt, Jeff Bhasker and Mark Ronson who also served as its producer along with the former three, under their alias, The Smeezingtons, and Bhasker. "Moonshine" is a midtempo dance-pop, power pop and R&B record. In addition to be heavily influenced by quiet storm style and a " disco groove". Development of "Moonshine" began while Mars, Ronson and Bhasker "went out one night" and drunk moonshine all night long. When they returned to the studio they started jamming, while Mars screamed "Moonshine, take us to the stars!".

The song was released as the second promotional single on November 19, 2012. It was set to be issued on contemporary hit radio as the fourth single of the album in Europe and South America, as announced by Brazilian Warner Music Group in their official website. However, it was replaced by " Gorilla", which had already been released in the United States and Oceania at the time. Commercially, "Moonshine" charted only in South Korea, where it reached number 17, along with the release of its parent album. It eventually charted in both Belgium charts in 2013, peaking at number 30 on the Ultratop 50 Flanders and Ultratip Wallonia, a component of the Ultratop 50 Wallonia at number four. On the following year, it debuted in France, spending 11 weeks on the chart, Netherlands and Poland, during the month of January, peaking at number 117, 32 and 11, respectively.

It received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who compared its composition to the works of Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna. Musically, the track has a "retro" vibe, which is noted on the "flanged guitar notes", "moody chord progressions" and "cheesy flecks of synthesizer". Its lyrics, had different interpretations with some using its denotative meaning, saying that Mars tries to escape "to ecstasy in a bottle of his favorite vice", while others took a connotative approach by writing that "Moonshine" is about "longing for the high water mark of a relationship", which becomes "impossible to reach". The track was performed on the Moonshine Jungle Tour (2013-2015) as the opening act.