moorcock, moorfowl

[Eng. moor, and cock, fowl.] The red grouse, Lagopus scoticus. The female is called a moorhen. *Moôr-er-ỹ, s . [English Moor (1), s.; -ery.] A Moorish quarter or district. "They arose and entered the Moorery."-Southey: Chronicle of the Cid , p. 386. Moôr-ě , subst. [ Moor (1), s.;- e .] A female Moor; a Moorish woman ( Campbell : Epistle , from Algiers, to Horace Smith .)