Definition of moor

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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..

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Atabal :: Atabal (n.) A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors..
Moresque :: Moresque (n.) The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish..
Harpy :: Harpy (n.) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
Mooring :: Mooring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moo.
Barb :: Barb (n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors..
Moory :: Moory (n.) A kind of blue cloth made in India.
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.
Moor :: Moor (n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
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..
Bridle :: Bridle (n.) A mooring hawser.
Moorage :: Moorage (n.) A place for mooring.
Mulada :: Mulada (n.) A moor.
Moored :: Moored (imp. & p. p.) of Moo.
Whinberry :: Whinberry (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze..
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..
Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
Moorland :: Moorland (n.) Land consisting of a moor or moors.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t..
Moor :: Moor (v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly..
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