Definition of moor

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Moor (n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns..

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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..
Fell :: Fell (n.) A wild field; a moor.
Berthage :: Berthage (n.) A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t..
Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings..
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..
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..
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..
Moorstone :: Moorstone (n.) A species of English granite, used as a building stone..
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..
Blackmoor :: Blackmoor (n.) See Blackamoor.
Alcayde :: Alcayde (n.) A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors..
Moreland :: Moreland (n.) Moorland.
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..
Mooress :: Mooress (n.) A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
Morian :: Morian (n.) A Moor.
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.
Moor :: Moor (n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
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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