Definition of moor

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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..

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Moresque :: Moresque (n.) The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish..
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..
Fast :: Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring..
Rosland :: Rosland (n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
Morris-pike :: Morris-pike (n.) A Moorish pike.
Moorband :: Moorband (n.) See Moorpan.
Harpy :: Harpy (n.) The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
Morocco :: Morocco (n.) A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors..
Moory :: Moory (n.) A kind of blue cloth made in India.
Marish :: Marish (n.) Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor..
Mooring :: Mooring (n.) The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
Moor :: Moor (n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
Tunguses :: Tunguses (n. pl.) A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols.
Mooress :: Mooress (n.) A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
Whinberry :: Whinberry (n.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze..
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..
Alhambra :: Alhambra (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Mulada :: Mulada (n.) A moor.
Morisco :: Morisco (n.) A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture..
Bent :: Bent (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
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