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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.]

To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with. Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden.

One who bemoans.

Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants. -- n.

Loss of power to distinguish heat or cold by touch.

ngs, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

A trench dug in the botton of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

oms did content Without much fall of blood. Shak. The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle. Deut. ii. 9. In ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valor. Shak.

To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.

ng to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor. A moat defensive to a house. Shak.

of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa. [Written also Deinornis.]