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Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.

The setting of the sun; sunset. "When sundown skirts the moor." Tennyson.

fy shore. Scarce had they cleared the surfy waves That foam around those frightful caves. Moore.

A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

gined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. Moore.

a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. "A leopard's tawny and spotted hide." Longfellow.

High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle. [Prov. Eng.] A rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree. C. Kingsley.

A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols. [Written also Tungooses.]

A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress. E. Moore.

All; -- a direction for all the singers or players to perform together. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

To remove a curtain from; to reveal. Moore.

. ix. 27. The minstrel fell, but the foeman's chain Could not bring his proud soul under. Moore.

"The fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf." Shak. Wharf boat, a kind of boat moored at the bank of a river, and used for a wharf, in places where the height of the water is so variable that a fixed wharf would be useless. [U. S.] Bartlett. -- Wharf rat. (Zoöl.) (a) The common brown rat. (b) A neglected bo…

Same as Whinstone. [Prov. Eng.] Moor whin or Petty whin (Bot.), a low prickly shrub (Genista Anglica) common in Western Europe. -- Whin bruiser, a machine for cutting and bruising whin, or furze, to feed cattle on. -- Whin Sparrow (Zoöl.), the hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Whin Thrush (Zoöl.), the redwing. [Prov. En…

The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze. Dr. Prior.

ewilderment. And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death. Moore.

ght; to fly through. There's not an arrow wings the sky But fancy turns its point to him. Moore.

The European moor hen. [Prov. Eng.]

have withheld our political noodles From knocking their heads against hot Yankee-Doodles. Moore.