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

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

Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors..

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

Mooress :: Mooress (n.) A female Moor; a Moorish woman.

Moor :: Moor (n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

Morland :: Morland (n.) Moorland.

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Moorband :: Moorband (n.) See Moorpan.

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..

Blackmoor :: Blackmoor (n.) See Blackamoor.

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

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

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..

Marish :: Marish (n.) Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor..

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

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..

Moor :: 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..

Moorstone :: Moorstone (n.) A species of English granite, used as a building stone..

Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The place or condition of a ship thus confined.

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