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Chica :: Chica (n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc..

Mooress :: Mooress (n.) A female Moor; a Moorish woman.

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..

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..

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.

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

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

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..

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

Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Having the characteristics of a moor or heath.

Moorpan :: Moorpan (n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc..

Macaque :: Macaque (n.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies..

Mooruk :: Mooruk (n.) A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue..

Smore :: Smore (v. t.) To smother. See Smoor.

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

Atabal :: Atabal (n.) A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors..

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..

Wynkernel :: Wynkernel (n.) The European moor hen.

Skitty :: Skitty (n.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen..

Bridle :: Bridle (n.) A mooring hawser.

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