/moh"lok, mol"euhk/ , n.
1. a deity whose worship was marked by the propitiatory sacrifice of children by their own parents. II Kings 23:10; Jer. 32:35.
2. anything conceived of as requiring appalling sacrifice: the Moloch of war.
3. ( l.c. ) a spiny agamid lizard, Moloch horridus, of Australian deserts, that resembles the horned lizard.
Also, Molech (for defs. 1, 2).
[ Moloch Móloch Molekh, var. of melekh king ]