While you were sleeping–An Eclipse of the Harvest Moon!

We were, cruising along in the twilight, off on an adventure, when all of a sudden, we crested the hill and saw it: The Full Harvest Moon!

Dent de Lion

The 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster is a wonderful resource for the historical perspective of an English word. It shows what our ancestors were thinking when they said the same word we are still saying now, nearly 200 years later.