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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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... fortune) the additional name of Smith? This gentleman Pope seems to call indiscriminately Moore, Moor, and More: and when he says that his good nature towards the dunces was so great that he had even "rhymed for Moor" (Ib. v. 373.), I cannot but suspect that the Moor for whom he had rhymed, was the giddy son whom Arthur accused him of seducing from the law to the Muses. There are many allusions to this ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 49, Saturday, Oct. 5, 1850 • Various
... house), by means that I shall show, to the Church of St. Dunstan in London to-morrow night, and thy service shall be richly paid. Thou'rt about to ask whose corpse it is. Seek not to know. I warn thee, seek not to know. Felons hang in chains on every moor and heath. Believe, as others do, that this was one, and ask no further. The murders of state policy, its victims or avengers, had best remain unknown ...
— Master Humphrey's Clock • Charles Dickens
... hands have slain him, Braver, knightlier foe Never fought 'gainst Moor or Paynim— ...
— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon
... fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day; Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, ...
— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein
... streak of white houses, which I fancied must be Okehampton. There was no need to inquire the way. At the pace both cars were travelling there was only one road which would serve either Mannering or myself. In fifteen minutes Launceston came into view. Then up again until from the top of Bodmin moor we caught fleeting glimpses of the sea on either side of us. On still without pause, through Redruth and Camborne and Hayle. Finally a sight of them at last, as we opened up St. Michael's Bay as we came to Marazion. And ...
— The Motor Pirate • George Sidney Paternoster


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