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Definition of moa

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Moa (n.) 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 were much larger than the ostrich..

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Rundel :: Rundel (n.) A moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet..

Mone :: Mone (n.) A moan.

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire..

Croon :: Croon (n.) A low, continued moan; a murmur..

Ratitae :: Ratitae (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples..

Graffage :: Graffage (n.) The scarp of a ditch or moat.

Swough :: Swough (n.) A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.

Dirgeful :: Dirgeful (a.) Funereal; moaning.

Ponvolant :: Ponvolant (n.) A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge..

Lament :: Lament (v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

Toothbill :: Toothbill (n.) A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. Its color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea..

Moanful :: Moanful (a.) Full of moaning; expressing sorrow.

Groan :: Groan (n.) A low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation; as, the remark was received with groans..

Mourn :: Mourn (v. t.) To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.

Moate :: Moate (v. i.) To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute..

Fosse :: Fosse (n.) A ditch or moat.

Moan :: Moan (v. i.) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously..

Moan :: Moan (v. t.) To afflict; to distress.

Apteryx :: Apteryx (n.) A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, 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..

Cunette :: Cunette (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette..