Definition of moor

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Moor (v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.

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Moorpan :: Moorpan (n.) A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc..
Morris-pike :: Morris-pike (n.) A Moorish pike.
Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..
Chica :: Chica (n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc..
Barb :: Barb (n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors..
Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
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..
Chock :: Chock (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc..
Moorland :: Moorland (n.) Land consisting of a moor or moors.
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
Rosland :: Rosland (n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
Alcayde :: Alcayde (n.) A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors..
Macaque :: Macaque (n.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies..
Bent :: Bent (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. i.) To weigh anchor.
Alhambra :: Alhambra (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Moor :: Moor (n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns..
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..
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..
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