Definition of moor

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Moor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.

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Morian :: Morian (n.) A Moor.
Moresque :: Moresque (n.) The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish..
Moresque :: Moresque (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish..
Moorage :: Moorage (n.) A place for mooring.
Gorcock :: Gorcock (n.) The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse..
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. i.) To weigh anchor.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t..
Morris :: Morris (n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets..
Moor :: Moor (n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Morris-pike :: Morris-pike (n.) A Moorish pike.
Harpy :: Harpy (n.) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
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..
Tawny :: Tawny (n.) Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion..
Whinberry :: Whinberry (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze..
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..
Moor :: Moor (v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly..
Mulada :: Mulada (n.) A moor.
Moory :: Moory (n.) A kind of blue cloth made in India.
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..
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..
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