Definition of moor

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

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Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. i.) To weigh anchor.
Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings..
Tunguses :: Tunguses (n. pl.) A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols.
Unmoor :: Unmoor (v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t..
Blackamoor :: Blackamoor (n.) A negro or negress.
Migrate :: Migrate (v. i.) To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West..
Morris :: Morris (n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets..
Moresque :: Moresque (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish..
Wynkernel :: Wynkernel (n.) The European moor hen.
Alhambra :: Alhambra (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Marish :: Marish (a.) Moory; fenny; boggy.
Morian :: Morian (n.) A Moor.
Moorish :: Moorish (a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
Morris-pike :: Morris-pike (n.) A Moorish pike.
Moory :: Moory (n.) A kind of blue cloth made in India.
Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..
Homoplast :: Homoplast (n.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoorgan.
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..
Moorball :: Moorball (n.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
Harpy :: Harpy (n.) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
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