Definition of moor

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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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Marish :: Marish (n.) Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor..
Smoor :: Smoor (v. t.) To suffocate or smother.
Morris :: Morris (n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets..
Chica :: Chica (n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc..
Hawse :: Hawse (n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow..
Alhambra :: Alhambra (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Mooruk :: Mooruk (n.) A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue..
Moreland :: Moreland (n.) Moorland.
Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
Bent :: Bent (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. i.) To weigh anchor.
Whinberry :: Whinberry (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze..
Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
Blackamoor :: Blackamoor (n.) A negro or negress.
Moor :: Moor (n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
Mooring :: Mooring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moo.
Rosland :: Rosland (n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
Mooress :: Mooress (n.) A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
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..
Wynkernel :: Wynkernel (n.) The European moor hen.
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