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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Whinberry :: Whinberry (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze..
Gorcock :: Gorcock (n.) The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse..
Bridle :: Bridle (n.) A mooring hawser.
Homoplast :: Homoplast (n.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoorgan.
Moorpan :: Moorpan (n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc..
Morian :: Morian (n.) A Moor.
Rosland :: Rosland (n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
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..
Hawse :: Hawse (n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow..
Chica :: Chica (n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc..
Moored :: Moored (imp. & p. p.) of Moo.
Morris-pike :: Morris-pike (n.) A Moorish pike.
Moresque :: Moresque (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish..
Moor :: Moor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.
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..
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..
Migrate :: Migrate (v. i.) To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West..
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