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See Moonstruck.

Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.

The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty.

Of or pertaining to the moon. Soft and pale as the moony beam. J. R. Drake.

One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

A place for mooring.

A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Ægagropila) which forms a globular mass.

See Moorpan.

A female Moor; a Moorish woman.

The place or condition of a ship thus confined. And the tossed bark in moorings swings. Moore. Mooring block (Naut.), a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.

Having the characteristics of a moor or heath. "Moorish fens." Thomson.

Land consisting of a moor or moors.

A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.

A species of English granite, used as a building stone.

ed for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.

Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. Mortimer. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.

sembles the European elk, and by many zoölogists is considered the same species. See Elk. Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See Whisky jack. -- Moose deer. Same as Moose. -- Moose yard (Zoöl.), a locality where moose, in winter, herd together in a forest to feed and for mutual protection.…

The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).

See 1st Mot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. [Obs.] "The moot-hall of Herod." Wyclif.