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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Moor :: Moor (n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..
Smore :: Smore (v. t.) To smother. See Smoor.
Smoor :: Smoor (v. t.) To suffocate or smother.
Wynkernel :: Wynkernel (n.) The European moor hen.
Moorage :: Moorage (n.) A place for mooring.
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..
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.
Homoplast :: Homoplast (n.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoorgan.
Rosland :: Rosland (n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
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..
Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
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..
Mooring :: Mooring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moo.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors..
Castanets :: Castanets (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars..
Morian :: Morian (n.) A Moor.
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..
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t..
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..
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