Earthlight

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Earthlight \Earth"light`\, n. (Astron.)
     The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which
     we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before
     or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined
     by direct sunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]