ˈnight-sun
[f. night n. + sun n.1]
† 1. A mock-moon, paraselene. Obs. rare.
| 1594 Constable Diana i. ii, Earthly vapours drawne up by the Sunne, Comets begun, and night-sunnes in the skie. |
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 18 Three Moones also appeared at once,..which most men called Night Sunnes. |
2. poet. The moon.
| 1842 Longfellow Hiawatha ix, The moon, the Night-Sun, eastward, Suddenly, starting from his ambush. |