Rippling waters made a pleasant moan.
Byron.
Moan"ful (?), a. Full of moaning; expressing sorrow. -- Moan"ful*ly,
adv.
Moat (?), n. [OF. mote hill, dike, bank, F. motte clod, turf: cf. Sp. &
Pg. mota bank or mound of earth, It. motta clod, LL. mota, motta, a
hill on which a fort is built, an eminence, a dike, Prov. G. mott bog
earth heaped up; or perh. F. motte, and OF. mote, are from a LL. p. p.
of L. movere to move (see Move). The name of moat, properly meaning,
bank or mound, was transferred to the ditch adjoining: cf. F. dike and
ditch.] (Fort.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other
fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
Moat, v. t. To surround with a moat. Dryden.
Moate (?), v. i. [See Mute to molt.] To void the excrement, as a bird;
to mute. [Obs.]
Mob (?), n. [See Mobcap.] A mobcap. Goldsmith.