[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

moor \moor\ m=oor, n. f. more, maure, l. maurus a moor, a
   mauritanian, an inhabitant of mauritania, gr. may^ros; cf.
   may^ros black, dark. cf. morris a dance, morocco.
   1. one of a mixed race inhabiting morocco, algeria, tunis,
      and tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
      1913 webster

   2. hist. any individual of the swarthy races of africa or
      asia which have adopted the mohammedan religion. "in
      spanish history the terms moors, saracens, and arabs are
      synonymous." --internat. cyc.
      1913 webster
see also:
morris morocco 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

moor \moor\, n. oe. mor, as. m=or moor, morass; akin to d.
   moer moor, g. moor, and prob. to goth. marei sea, e. 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.
      1913 webster

            in her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
                                                  --carew.
      1913 webster

   2. a game preserve consisting of moorland.
      1913 webster

   moor buzzard zool., the marsh harrier. prov. eng.

   moor coal geol., a friable variety of lignite.

   moor cock zool., the male of the moor fowl or red
      grouse of europe.

   moor coot. zool. see gallinule.

   moor game. zool. same as moor fowl.

   moor grass bot., a tufted perennial grass sesleria
      caerulea, found in mountain pastures of europe.

   moor hawk zool., the marsh harrier.

   moor hen. zool.
      a the female of the moor fowl.
      b a gallinule, esp. the european species. see
          gallinule.
      c an australian rail tribonyx ventralis.

   moor monkey zool., the black macaque of borneo macacus
      maurus.

   moor titling zool., the european stonechat pratinocola
      rubicola.
      1913 webster
see also:
mere moor buzzard moor coal moor cock moor fowl moor coot 
gallinule moor game moor fowl moor grass sesleria caerulea 
moor hawk moor hen tribonyx ventralis moor monkey macacus maurus 
moor titling pratinocola rubicola 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

moor \moor\ m=oor, v. t. imp.  p. p. moored m=oord;
   p. pr.  vb. n. mooring. prob. fr. d. marren to tie,
   fasten, or moor a ship. see mar.
   1. naut. 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.
      1913 webster

   2. fig.: to secure, or fix firmly. --brougham.
      1913 webster
see also:
moored mooring mar 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

moor \moor\, v. i.
   to cast anchor; to become fast.
   1913 webster

         on oozy ground his galleys moor.         --dryden.
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

moor
     n 1: 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
     2: open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and
        bracken and moss syn: moorland
     v 1: secure in or as if in a berth or dock; "tie up the boat"
          syn: berth, tie up
     2: come into or dock at a wharf; "the big ship wharfed in the
        evening" syn: berth, wharf
     3: secure with cables or ropes; "moor the boat"
see also:
moorland berth tie up wharf 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

266 moby thesaurus words for "moor":
   affix, agricultural region, alight, alkali flat, alluvial plain,
   anchor, annex, anthill, arable land, attach, barrow, basin, batten,
   batten down, baygall, belay, berth, billet at, bind, bivouac,
   black belt, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, brae, bridle,
   buffalo wallow, burrow, bushveld, butte, camp, campo, cast anchor,
   catch, cement, chain, champaign, champaign country, cinch,
   citrus belt, clamp, clinch, coastal plain, colonize,
   come to anchor, come to land, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside,
   cramp, debark, debus, delta, deplane, desert, detrain, disembark,
   disemplane, dock, domesticate, down, downs, drop anchor,
   drop the hook, drumlin, dune, dust bowl, enchain, engraft,
   ensconce, entrammel, establish residence, everglade, farm belt,
   farm country, farmland, fasten, fasten down, fell, fen, fenland,
   fetter, fix, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, foothills,
   fruit belt, glade, go ashore, graft, grapple, grass roots,
   grass veld, grassland, grazing region, gyve, hamper, handcuff,
   heath, highland, highlands, hill, hillock, hive, hobble,
   hog wallow, hog-tie, holm, hopple, hummock, inhabit, kedge,
   kedge off, keep house, knit, knob, knoll, land, lande, lash,
   lash and tie, lay anchor, leash, level, live at, llano, locate,
   lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, make a landfall, make fast,
   make land, make port, make secure, make sure, manacle, marais,
   mare, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, meadows and pastures, mere,
   mesa, mesilla, mire, molehill, monticle, monticule, moorland,
   moors, morass, moss, mound, move, mud, mud flat, nest,
   open country, pampa, pampas, park, peat bog, peg down, peneplain,
   people, perch, picket, pin down, pinion, plain, plains, plateau,
   playa, populate, prairie, prairies, province, provinces, put in,
   put in irons, put into port, put to, quagmire, quicksand,
   reach land, relocate, reside, restrain, rolling country, roost,
   rope, rural district, rustic region, salt flat, salt marsh,
   salt pan, sand dune, savanna, screw up, sebkha, secure, set,
   set to, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down,
   shackle, sit down, slob land, slough, sough, squat, stand, stay at,
   steppe, steppes, straitjacket, strap, strike root, sump, swale,
   swamp, swampland, swell, table, tableland, taiga,
   take residence at, take root, take up residence, tether,
   the country, the soil, the sticks, tie, tie down, tie up, tighten,
   tobacco belt, trammel, tree veld, trice up, trim, tundra, unboat,
   upland, uplands, vega, veld, wallow, wash, wasteland, weald,
   wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wold, woodland, woods and fields,
   yokeldom

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