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Moory

Moory \Moor"y\, a. Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish.
--Mortimer.

As when thick mists arise from moory vales.
--Fairfax.

Moory

Moory \Moor"y\, n. A kind of blue cloth made in India.
--Balfour (Cyc of India).

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moory

a. Resembling a moor; swampy; boggy. n. A kind of blue cloth made in India.

Usage examples of "moory".

Perhaps there would be a moory marsh on one side of the ridge, and a forest of thirty thousand acres on the other, with all the great branches weighted in white.

And this I know by experience, that some one man by conversion of his moory grounds into hopyards, whereof before he had no commodity, doth raise yearly by so little as twelve acres in compass two hundred marks - all charges borne towards the maintenance of his family.