Definition of moor

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Moor (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath..

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Moor :: Moor (v. t.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf..
Morisco :: Morisco (n.) A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture..
Mooring :: Mooring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moo.
Smore :: Smore (v. t.) To smother. See Smoor.
Mooring :: Mooring (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc..
Bent :: Bent (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.
Moorpan :: Moorpan (n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc..
Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
Homoorgan :: Homoorgan () Same as Homoplast.
Alhambra :: Alhambra (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Morocco :: Morocco (n.) A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors..
Moor :: Moor (n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..
Castanets :: Castanets (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars..
Moorball :: Moorball (n.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
Fell :: Fell (n.) A wild field; a moor.
Morland :: Morland (n.) Moorland.
Bridle :: Bridle (n.) A mooring hawser.
Moorband :: Moorband (n.) See Moorpan.
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