Crossword-Solution: MOOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Moor | n. | One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns. |
| Moor | n. | Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. |
| Moor | n. | An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. |
| Moor | n. | A game preserve consisting of moorland. |
| Moor | v. t. | 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. |
| Moor | v. t. | Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly. |
| Moor | v. i. | To cast anchor; to become fast. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MOOR | anagram | MORO, ROMO, ROOM |
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Sentences with MOOR (5)
MELCHESTER MOOR—SNOW—A MEETING For dreariness, nothing could surpass a prospect in the outskirts of the city of Melchester at a later hour on this same snowy evening—if that may be called a prospect of which the chief constituent was darkness.
The Spirit did not tarry here, but bade Scrooge hold his robe, and passing on above the moor, sped--whither? Not to sea? To sea.
Here there lies a grove of trees, marked as the ‘Ragged Shaw,’ and on the farther side stretches a great rolling moor, Lower Gill Moor, extending for ten miles and sloping gradually upward.
Item the first: the baker’s man declared he had met Rosanna Spearman, on the previous afternoon, with a thick veil on, walking towards Frizinghall by the foot-path way over the moor.
Here there lies a grove of trees, marked as the 'Ragged Shaw,' and on the farther side stretches a great rolling moor, Lower Gill Moor, extending for ten miles and sloping gradually upwards.
Quotes with MOOR (3)
Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother: from her sprang Saturn, Hyperion, Oceanus; she bore Prometheus" --"Pagan that you are! what does that signify?""I say, there were giants on the earth in those days: giants that strove to scale heaven. The first woman's breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring…
I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs.
Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile — the winds — To a heart in port — Done with the compass — Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden — Ah, the sea! Might I moor — Tonight — In thee!
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 518 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).