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hat their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.

ited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy. Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance. Carew.

hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work. Authors of all work, to job for the season. Moore.

Eden, to dress it and to keep it. Gen. ii. 15. In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle. Moore.

A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

Plaintive; -- a term applied to a mournful or pathetic movement or style. Moore.

A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.

e of being so kept. Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields. Lowell.

nd myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which were cut of the living rock." Moore. -- The living, those who are alive, or one who is alive.

autionary phrases; as, "Vivace, ma non troppo presto" (i. e., lively, but not too quick). Moore (Encyc. of Music).

y one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.

Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

r harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

e signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music. Moore (Encyc. of Music.)

Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor. [Archaic] Milton. Tennyson.

rrier (Zoöl.), a European hawk or harrier (Circus æruginosus); -- called also marsh hawk, moor hawk, moor buzzard, puttock. -- Marsh hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A hawk or harrier (Circus cyaneus), native of both America and Europe. The adults are bluish slate above, with a white rump. Called also hen harrier, and mouse hawk. (b…

another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.

To believe erroneously, or in a false religion. "That misbelieving Moor." Shak.