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- English Word Moor Definition 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.
- English Word Moor Definition Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
- English Word Moor Definition To cast anchor; to become fast.
- English Word Moorage Definition A place for mooring.
- English Word Moorball Definition A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
- English Word Moorband Definition See Moorpan.
- English Word Moored Definition of Moor
- English Word Mooress Definition A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
- English Word Mooring Definition of Moor
- English Word Mooring Definition The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
- English Word Mooring Definition That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
- English Word Mooring Definition The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
- English Word Moorish Definition Having the characteristics of a moor or heath.
- English Word Moorish Definition Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
- English Word Moorland Definition Land consisting of a moor or moors.
- English Word Moorpan Definition A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.
- English Word Moorstone Definition A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
- English Word Mooruk Definition 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.
- English Word Moory Definition Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish.
- English Word Moory Definition A kind of blue cloth made in India.
- English Word Moose Definition A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk.
- English Word Moosewood Definition The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).
- English Word Moosewood Definition Leatherwood.
- English Word Moot Definition See 1st Mot.
- English Word Moot Definition A ring for gauging wooden pins.
- English Word Moot Definition To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
- English Word Moot Definition Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
- English Word Moot Definition To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- English Word Moot Definition A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.
- English Word Moot Definition A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.