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Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. "In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous." Internat. Cyc.

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.

A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted 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.

A negro or negress. Shak.

See Blackamoor.

A breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.

Same as Homoplast.

To suffocate or smother. [Written also smore.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir T. More. Burns.

To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.

stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.