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e bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast. T. Moore.

ng kidney, under Wandering. -- Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light- ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage. -- Floating liver. (Med.) See Wandering liver, under Wandering. -- Floating pier, a landing st…

s Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata).

ong Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. [Written also ghole .] Moore.

Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

A small gondola. T. Moore.

d. Lytton. -- Good Friday, the Friday of Holy Week, kept in some churches as a fast, in memoory of our Savior's passion or suffering; the anniversary of the crucifixion. -- Good humor, or Good-humor, a cheerful or pleasant temper or state of mind. -- Good nature, or Good-nature, habitual kindness or mildness of tempe…

The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse. [Prov. Eng.]

ttractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. The Graces love to weave the rose. Moore. The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. Prior.

The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song. Moore (Encyc.). On that ground I'll build a holy descant. Shak.

The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus æruginosus).

The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.

Seated or laid up in the heart. I hate the Moor: my cause is hearted. Shak.

tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart. Shak. Sobbing, as if a hearstring broke. Moore.

, which inhabits heats; -- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called, heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen. -- Heath hen. (Zoöl.) See Heath grouse (above). -- Heath pea (bot.), a species of bitter vetch (Lathyris macrorhizus), the tubers of…

A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; although; albeit; yet; but; however. The Moor -- howbeit that I endure him not -Is of a constant, loving, noble nature. Shak.

.), the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial. -- Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. Kane. -- Ice blink Etym: [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. -- Ice boat. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runne…

A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims. Moore.

Not contaminated; pure. Moore. -- In`con*tam"i*nate*ness, n.