mooring shackle (moringshak"l)

Same as mooring-swivel. 3853 in Egypt, but is generally inferior in dignity, refinement, and variety. Like other Saracenic art, it is nearly devoid of the representation of animal or vegetable life, and is especially rich in purely conventional or geometrical patterns, such as inter lacings, produced in stamped and colored plaster, in glazed and painted tiles, in carving, etc. Alhambraic art is a late development of the Moorish. See cut under arabesque. - Moorish drum, a tambourine. Moorish pottery, pottery made by the people of northern Africa: a name specifically given to the bacini built into the walls of ancient Italian churches, a umed by modern writers to have been brought from Africa as trophies. moorland (mör'land), n. and a. [ Tennyson, Locksley Hall. II. a . Consisting of moorland; having the properties of a moor. Moo Moorman (mör'man), n.; pl. Moormen (-men). [ -man.] A Moor; one supposed to be a Moor: specifically applied to Mohammedan tradesmen of Arabic descent in Ceylon. Loku-Appu, tying the Moorman up in the sack, and taking his clothes and bundle of cloth, then hid himself. The Orientalist, II. 53. A book moor-monkey (mör' mung" ki), n. name of a Bornean macaque, Macacus maurus: so called from the blackish color. It is about 18 inches long, with scarcely any tail. moornt, v. An obsolete spelling of mourn1. moorpan (mör'pan), n. [