What is the meaning of Moor?

  • (n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
  • (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
  • (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.
  • (n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
  • (v.i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.
  • (v.t.) Fig.: To secure or fix firmly.
  • (n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
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