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Homoplast :: Homoplast (n.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoorgan.

Beacon :: Beacon (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners..

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

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..

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..

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

Tunguses :: Tunguses (n. pl.) A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols.

Smoor :: Smoor (v. t.) To suffocate or smother.

Moorland :: Moorland (n.) Land consisting of a moor or moors.

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

Moory :: Moory (n.) A kind of blue cloth made in India.

Morland :: Morland (n.) Moorland.

Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. i.) To weigh anchor.

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..

Mooring :: Mooring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moo.

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

Gorcock :: Gorcock (n.) The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse..

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..

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..

Berthage :: Berthage (n.) A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

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