MOOR
\mˈʊ͡ə], \mˈʊə], \m_ˈʊə]\
Definitions of MOOR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
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secure with cables or ropes; "moor the boat"
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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
By Princeton University
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open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
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secure with cables or ropes; "moor the boat"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
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Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
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An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
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A game preserve consisting of moorland.
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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.
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Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
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To cast anchor; to become fast.
By Oddity Software
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One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
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Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
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An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
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A game preserve consisting of moorland.
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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.
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Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
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To cast anchor; to become fast.
By Noah Webster.
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In England, a broad tract of waste land covered with heather, etc.
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To fasten (a ship) by a cable and anchor.
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To be secured by a cable and anchor.—Moor.
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A native of Morocco, in North Africa; in the Middle Ages, one of the Saracens who invaded and settled in Spain.
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Moorish, Moorish.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An extensive waste covered with heath, and having a poor, peaty soil: a heath.
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To fasten a ship by cable and anchor.
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To be fastened by cables or chains.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman