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

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..

Blackamoor :: Blackamoor (n.) A negro or negress.

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

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..

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

Moresque :: Moresque (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish..

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

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings..

Moorage :: Moorage (n.) A place for mooring.

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

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..

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.

Moorball :: Moorball (n.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.

Moresque :: Moresque (n.) The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish..

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

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

Fell :: Fell (n.) A wild field; a moor.

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

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