intransitive verb. To make fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines.

intransitive verb. To fix in place; secure: synonym: fasten.

intransitive verb. To provide with an abiding emotional attachment.

intransitive verb. To secure a vessel or aircraft with lines or anchors.

intransitive verb. To be secured with lines or anchors.

noun. An uncultivated area covered with low-growing vegetation and often high but poorly drained.

noun. The act of mooring.

noun. A tract of open, untilled, and more or less elevated land, often overrun with heath.

noun. A tract of land on which game is strictly preserved for the purposes of sport.

noun. Any uninclosed ground.

noun. Synonyms Morass, etc. See marsh.

noun. One of a dark race dwelling in Barbary in northern Africa. They derive their name from the ancient Mauri or Mauritanians (see Mauritanian), but the present Moors are a mixed race, chiefly of Arab and Mauritanian origin. The name is applied especially to the dwellers in the cities. The Arabic conquerors of Spain were called Moors.

noun. undefined

noun. A dark-colored person generally; a negro; a black.

noun. A bailiff of a farm.

noun. An officer in the Isle of Man who summons the courts for the several districts or sheadings.

To confine or secure (a ship) in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by lines; specifically, to secure (a ship) by placing the anchors so that she will ride between them, thus occupying the smallest possible space in swinging round.

To secure; fix firmly.

To be held by cables or chains.

To fasten or anchor a boat or ship.

A dialectal form of more.

transitive verb. To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains

transitive verb. Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.

noun. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

noun. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

noun. the marsh harrier.

noun. a friable variety of lignite.

noun. the male of the moor fowl or red grouse of Europe.

noun. See Gallinule.

noun. Same as Moor fowl.

noun. a tufted perennial grass (Sesleria cærulea), found in mountain pastures of Europe.

noun. the marsh harrier.

noun. An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis).

noun. the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus maurus).

noun. the European stonechat (Pratinocola rubicola).

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

noun. Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

intransitive verb. To cast anchor; to become fast.

noun. an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath

noun. a game preserve consisting of moorland

verb. To cast anchor or become fastened.

verb. To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

verb. To secure or fix firmly.

verb. secure with cables or ropes

verb. come into or dock at a wharf

noun. open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

noun. one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century

verb. secure in or as if in a berth or dock

"To pray. _v.a. _ To drive all the cattle into one herd in a moor; _to pray the moor_, to search for lost cattle."

a flying moor  bog  marsh  moor rock  moor's head  

moored  mooring  moorland  

Moslem  Muslim  dock  fasten  fix  

Baldur  Bloor  Moore  Muir  Ruhr  

cliff  crag  desert  desolation  expanse  

Marrano  affix  agricultural region  alight  alkali flat  

moored  moores  mooring  moors