Moat

Deep trench round a fortified place sometimes filled with water. Mocking Bird ( Mimus polyglott a ). and white. It winters in s. U. S. and summers as far n. as s. Wis. Length 94 in., of which more than half is tail. The Cat bird, also a member of the Wren family, belongs to a closely related genus. Mock Money. Ceremonial imitations of silver money and ingots, made of paper; burned by the Chinese as an offering to the spirits of the dead. Many kinds exist, the commonest consisting of sheets of brown paper, upon which tinfoil is pasted.