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moray

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Moray is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: Andrew Moray , military leader during the Anglo-Scottish conflict of the late 1290 Ann Moray (1909–1981), Welsh singer and novelist Jim Moray (born 1981), English singer, ...

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n. family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked [syn: moray eel ]

Usage examples of moray.

When he looked back the way he had come he could see the Gull of Moray anchored not far off a tiny rind of beach that clung precariously to the foot of the soaring rocky cliffs where the mountains fell into the sea.

The chain of the Mormaer of Moray lay in linked pairs of silver rings across his chest, fastened with the broad penannular ring which was his badge of office.

Moray Firth and the Firth of Forth, well north of the Tweed, the Kings of Scotland had long claimed the right to rule all of the territory south of Lothian as far as Rere Crossing.

Each time the lookout hailed the quarterdeck, Hal went aloft himself, longing to see the top sails of a square-rigged ship come up over the horizon, and to recognize the set of the Gull of Moray.

Thus we will patent the Cadbury clown fish, the British Petroleum stag coral, the Marks and Spencer moray eel, the Royal Bank of Scotland angelfish, and gliding silently overhead, the British Airways manta ray.

At the Inverness Parliament the Earl of Atholl and Thomas Randolph offered Bruce their allegiance, the Earl of Atholl was then confirmed in his lands and Randolph was given the Earldom of Moray.

Andrew, son of Sir Andrew de Moray, had led one in Moray, Boharm in Banffshire and Avoch in the Black Isle.

During 1297 several risings had occurred, Andrew, son of Sir Andrew de Moray, had led one in Moray, Boharm in Banffshire and Avoch in the Black Isle.

Sir Ensor, a wild rebellious son of an Earl of Moray, who travelled with his wife to Exmoor, and settled there, in a rage because the king would give him no redress against his elder brother.

The chain of the Mormaer of Moray lay in linked pairs of silver rings across his chest, fastened with the broad penannular ring which was his badge of office.

Maelsnechta, Mormaer of Moray by inheritance from his father, lived until 1085.

He was unfortunately unaware that the murder victim left a daughter, Gruoch, who was betrothed to a young Scot called Mac Beth, Mormaer of Moray, a man also of royal descent.

Over the past fifteen years, he had lived through three plane crashes, an attack by a wounded lioness, bites from sharks and moray eels, scorpion stings and infestation by a succession of exotic parasites and amoebas that had caused, among other inconveniences, the temporary loss of all body hair and the sloughing of the skin from his tongue and penis.

The monitor is now awash in underwater rainbows from the Great Barrier Reef along with an infinity of tiny corals, sponges, scorpion and lionfish, goatfish, clownfish, moray eels, and sea stars.

Tall for her age, she'd grow to be taller-though not so tall, Rissa hoped, as the twenty decimeters of Tregare's father, Hawkman Moray.