Definition of moor

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Moor (n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

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Moresque :: Moresque (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish..
Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
Moorage :: Moorage (n.) A place for mooring.
Morland :: Morland (n.) Moorland.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors..
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..
Moor :: Moor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t..
Marish :: Marish (n.) Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor..
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..
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..
Chica :: Chica (n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc..
Fell :: Fell (n.) A wild field; a moor.
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..
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..
Homoplast :: Homoplast (n.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoorgan.
Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
Moorpan :: Moorpan (n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc..
Blackamoor :: Blackamoor (n.) A negro or negress.
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..
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