Definition of "moonrise"

Venus now re-assembles her Choirs of Virgins at Moon-rise, and leads the Ball.

1742, Matthew Towers, transl., The Lyric Pieces of Horace‎, Dublin, Volume I, Ode III, p. 17

Shooting, hunting, and cricket, were pursued with the eagerness of laborious occupations: often has he rambled about from day-break to moon-rise, in search of game; and then returned to Mr. ONiel’s, pale with fatigue, and sick with fasting.

1804, Anna Maria Porter, The Lake of Killarney‎, volume I, London: Longman & Rees, page 23

Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise.

1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 7”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company

Do I not know, some wingèd things from far / Are borne along illimitable night / To dance their lives out in a single flight / Between the moonrise and the setting star?

1909, Edith Wharton, “The Mortal Lease” V, in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, New York: Scribner’s, p. 41

Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly fallingWhere my dark lover lies.Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly callingAt grey moonrise.

1917 November, James Joyce, “She Weeps over Rahoon”, in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volume XI, number II, page 71

Moonrise over the hills above Settle.

2021 January 13, “Settle under starlight”, in Rail, page 37, photo caption