moorcock (morkok)

The male moor-fowl. moor-coot (mör'köt), n. Same as moor - hen, 2. Moor-dance (mör'dans), n. Same as Morisco, 3. Moorery (mör'er-i), n. [ They arose and entered the moorery, and slew many moors, and plundered their houses. Southey , Chron. of the Cid (1808), p. 386. (Davies.) Moore (mör'es), n . [ Moor4 + -e .] A fe- male Moor. moor-fowl (mör'foul), n . 1. Same as moor- game.-2. The ruffed grouse. J. Bartram, 1791. [South Carolina.] moor-game (mör'gām), n . The Scotch grouse or red-game, Lagopus scoticus . See cut under grouse . moor-gra (mör'grås), n. The gra Sesleria cærule a. It is widely spread throughout Europe in mountain pastures. A cotton-gra , Eriophorum an gust i folium, and other diverse plants, have also been so called.-Purple moor-gra . See Molinia. moor-hawk (mör'hak), n. The moor-buzzard or marsh-hawk, Circus æruginosus . Dryden, Æneid, vi. moor-heath (mör'heth), n. Heath of several species, especially Erica vagans , also called Cornish heath. See heath , 2. 2. To fasten or anchor a boat or ship. The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming [leviathan) some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee. Milton, P. L., 1. 207.