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rcular erection or arrangement of objects. A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. Keats.

The act of clambering. T. Moore.

His [Mozart's] most brilliant and solid glory is founded upon his talents as a composer. Moore (Encyc. of Mus. ).

ssian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore.

Dark; gloomy. "The darkling precipice." Moore.

Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.

A character, thus [ Moore (Encyc. of Music).

bereaved and disconsolate parent. One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. Moore. The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. Dryden.

To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark. And, making fast their moorings, disembarked. Cowper.

Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords. "Disjunctive notes." Moore (Encyc. of Music). Disjunctive conjunction (Gram.), one connecting grammatically two words or clauses, expressing at the same time an opposition or separation inherent in the notions or thoughts; as, either, or, neither, nor, but, although, except, lest, et…

A mooring post on a wharf or beach.

öl.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard. -- Duck mole (Zoöl.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs li…

or; swarthy. Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont. Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble. Dun crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zoöl.), the goosander or merganser.

f fabulous wealth; exceeding richness. The whole comedy is a sort of El Dorado of wit. T. Moore.

An action; a fight; a battle. In hot engagement with the Moors. Dryden.

ut Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. T. Moore.

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.

A wild field; a moor. Dryton.

lly with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh. 'Mid reedy fens wide spread. Wordsworth.

To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts. Moore.