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

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..

Rosland :: Rosland (n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.

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

Morris-pike :: Morris-pike (n.) A Moorish pike.

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

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

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..

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

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

Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Having the characteristics of a moor or heath.

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

Mulada :: Mulada (n.) A moor.

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc..

Gallinule :: Gallinule (n.) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule

Moorpan :: Moorpan (n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc..

Fen :: Fen (n.) Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh..

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.

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..

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

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