Moor
Moor (mor) , noun
[French More, Maure, Latin Maurus a Moor, a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauritania, Greek May^ros; compare may^ros black, dark. Compare Morris a dance, Morocco.]
1.
One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
2.
(Hist.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Muslim religion.
In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous.
Moor , noun
[Old English mor, Anglo-Saxon mōr moor, morass; akin to Dutch moer moor, German moor, and prob. to Gothic marei sea, English mere. See Mere a lake.]
1.
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
2.
A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Collocations (10)
Moor buzzard (Zoology) , the marsh harrier. [Provincial English]
Moor coal (Geology) , a friable variety of lignite.
Moor grass (Botany) , a tufted perennial grass (Sesleria caerulea), found in mountain pastures of Europe.
Moor hawk (Zoology) , the marsh harrier.
Moor hen (Zoology) , (a) The female of the moor fowl ∗. (b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See Gallinule. (c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis).
Moor monkey (Zoology) , the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus maurus).
Moor titling (Zoology) , the European stonechat (Pratinocola rubicola).
Moor (mor) , transitive verb
[Probably from Dutch marren to tie, fasten, or moor a ship. See Mar.]
1.
(Nautical) 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.
2.
Figuratively: To secure, or fix firmly. — Brougham
Moor , intransitive verb
To cast anchor; to become fast.
On oozy ground his galleys moor.