Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Moving \Mov"ing\, a.
   1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a
      moving car, or power.

   2. Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the
      sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic;
      as, a moving appeal.

            I sang an old moving story.           --Coleridge.

   {Moving force} (Mech.), a force that accelerates, retards, or
      deflects the motion of a body.

   {Moving plant} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Desmodium
      gyrans}); -- so called because its leaflets have a
      distinct automatic motion.