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The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

clef, or the C clef, placed so that the two strokes include the middle line of the staff. Moore.

To ply; to move. [R.] I heard the sound of an oar applying swiftly through the water. T. Moore.

s raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; - - opposed to thesis. Moore.

A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors. Croly.

ted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduces from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.

A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.

Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor. [Obs.] Wright. Bowmen bickered upon the bent. Chevy Chase.

A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore.

hen dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: Moore.

A mooring hawser. Bowline bridle. See under Bowline. -- Branches of a bridle. See under Branch. -- Bridle cable (Naut.), a cable which is bent to a bridle. See 4, above. -- Bridle hand, the hand which holds the bridle in riding; the left hand. -- Bridle path, Bridle way, a path or way for saddle horses and pack hor…

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. Anchor buoy, a buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor. -- Bell buoy, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of…

that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that. And but my noble Moor is true of mind . . . it were enough to put him to ill thinking. Shak.

o the sheet anchor. -- Stream cable, a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas. -- Submarine cable. See Telegraph. -- To pay out the cable, To veer out the cable, to slacken it, that it may run out of the ship; to let more cable run out of the hawse…

ed to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.

ument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning. T. Moore.

A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.

hort horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.