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Moor   /mʊr/   Listen
noun
Moor  n.  
1.
One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
2.
(Hist.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Muslim religion. "In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous."


Moor  n.  
1.
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. "In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor."
2.
A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Moor buzzard (Zool.), the marsh harrier. (Prov. Eng.)
Moor coal (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite.
Moor cock (Zool.), the male of the moor fowl or red grouse of Europe.
Moor coot. (Zool.) See Gallinule.
Moor game. (Zool.) Same as Moor fowl.
Moor grass (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass (Sesleria caerulea), found in mountain pastures of Europe.
Moor hawk (Zool.), the marsh harrier.
Moor hen. (Zool.)
(a)
The female of the moor fowl.
(b)
A gallinule, esp. the European species. See Gallinule.
(c)
An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis).
Moor monkey (Zool.), the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus maurus).
Moor titling (Zool.), the European stonechat (Pratinocola rubicola).


verb
Moor  v. t.  (past & past part. moored; pres. part. mooring)  
1.
(Naut.) 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.
2.
Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.


Moor  v. i.  To cast anchor; to become fast. "On oozy ground his galleys moor."





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"Moor" Quotes from Famous Books



... crossed the Irthing flood, My merry bard! he hastes, he hastes Up Knorren Moor, through Halegarth Wood, 495 And reaches soon that castle good Which stands and ...
— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... old philanthropist, Whom all his neighbours greet; Who has a smile for every one Whom he may chance to meet— Go to yon pleasant village, On the margin of the moor, And you will hear his praises sung By all the aged poor— The Grand Old Man of Oakworth, ...
— Revised Edition of Poems • William Wright
... snow began to fall lightly. The grass was soon covered with a thin white coating which gave a delightfully Alpine aspect to the scene. The prospect was glorious—the sharp, splintered, snow-crested crags stood out in bold relief against the neutral-tinted sky, and the long stretches of moor below them looked soft ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil
... and down in the shrill wind on the wild moor, while the neglected breakfast cooled within, the captain and the brothers ...
— A Message from the Sea • Charles Dickens
... own a large estate, Have palace, park, and a' that, And not for birth, but honest worth, Be thrice a man for a' that. And Sawnie, herding on the moor, Who beats his wife and a' that, Is nothing but a brutal boor, Nor half a man ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various


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