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growing of the moon en · NOUN
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The waxing phase of the lunar cycle.
Well, when they take [give] you those stinging nettles , they create ev’ry growing of the moon, see.
1970, Harry Middleton Hyatt, Hoodoo Conjuration WItchcraft & Rootwork, page 1395:In the same county, too, when a boy is born in the wane of the moon, it is believed that the next birth will be a girl, and vice versa; and it is also commonly said that when a birth takes place on the 'growing of the moon' the next child will be of the same sex."
2008 November 10, Timothy Harley, “IV. LUNAR INFLUENCES.”, in Moon Lore, Project Gutenberg:
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