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Morris :: Morris (n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets..

Whinberry :: Whinberry (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze..

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.

Homoorgan :: Homoorgan () Same as Homoplast.

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

Chock :: Chock (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc..

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..

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

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

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

Muzarab :: Muzarab (n.) One of a denomination of Christians formerly living under the government of the Moors in Spain, and having a liturgy and ritual of their own..

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..

Marish :: Marish (a.) Moory; fenny; boggy.

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

Alhambra :: Alhambra (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

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

Mulada :: Mulada (n.) A moor.

Harpy :: Harpy (n.) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).

Girt :: Girt (a.) Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

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