The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moor \Moor\, n. [OE. mor, AS. m[=o]r moor, morass; akin to D. moer moor, G. moor, and prob. to Goth. marei sea, E. mere. See Mere a lake.]
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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.
In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
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A game preserve consisting of moorland. Moor buzzard (Zo["o]l.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] Moor coal (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite. Moor cock (Zo["o]l.), the male of the moor fowl or red grouse of Europe. Moor coot. (Zo["o]l.) See Gallinule. Moor game. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Moor fowl. Moor grass (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass ( Sesleria c[ae]rulea), found in mountain pastures of Europe. Moor hawk (Zo["o]l.), the marsh harrier. Moor hen. (Zo["o]l.)
The female of the moor fowl.
A gallinule, esp. the European species. See Gallinule.
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An Australian rail ( Tribonyx ventralis).
Moor monkey (Zo["o]l.), the black macaque of Borneo ( Macacus maurus).
Moor titling (Zo["o]l.), the European stonechat ( Pratinocola rubicola).
Usage examples of "moor grass".
To talk about Dickon meant to talk about the moor and about the cottage and the fourteen people who lived in it on sixteen shillings a week-and the children who got fat on the moor grass like the wild ponies.
To talk about Dickon meant to talk about the moor and about the cottage and the fourteen people who lived in it on sixteen shillings a week--and the children who got fat on the moor grass like the wild ponies.
He was rather thin with living on moor grass but he was as tough and wiry as if the muscle in his little legs had been made of steel springs.
Weary and worried, he sat down in front of the gate and watched the moor grass wave and the birds sail over the denuded plains surrounding the castle while he tried to think what to do and waited for his ears and nose to stop twitching.