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Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.

Axis :: Axis (n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name)..

Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.

Homoorgan :: Homoorgan () Same as Homoplast.

Moor :: Moor (n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Moor :: 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..

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..

Marish :: Marish (n.) Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor..

Barb :: Barb (n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors..

Moored :: Moored (imp. & p. p.) of Moo.

Alcayde :: Alcayde (n.) A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors..

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..

Light-ship :: Light-ship (n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners..

Gallinule :: Gallinule (n.) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule

Morris-pike :: Morris-pike (n.) A Moorish pike.

Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..

Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t..

Fast :: Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring..

Moorage :: Moorage (n.) A place for mooring.

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings..

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