0 an area of northeastern Scotland that was a county until 1975 and is now a council area (= an area with its own local government):
The men are from Burghead in Moray.
In 1040 Duncan was defeated and killed in battle by Macbeth in Moray, perhaps at Elgin or Forres.
He was born to the north, and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew.
He was examining and cataloguing slides of plankton species from the Moray Firth.
