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More; -- usually, more in number. [Obs.] An hundred thousand mo. Chaucer. Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. Fuller.

Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species…

One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.

A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A. Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which bears an inscription of thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Phonician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over…

A female Moabite. Ruth i. 22.

Moabite. Ruth ii. 6.

r articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously. Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans. Thomson. Let there bechance him pitiful mischances, To make him moan. Shak.

Full of moaning; expressing sorrow. -- Moan"ful*ly, adv.

To surround with a moat. Dryden.

To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. [Obs.]

A mobcap. Goldsmith.

Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act. Bp. Kent.

A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself. Thackeray.

Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." Skelton.

The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle. Sir T. Browne.

The act of mobilizing.

To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.

To wrap the head of in a hood. [Obs.] Shak.

See Moebles. [Obs.]

Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy. Walpole.