Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MOON'-WORT, n.

A plant of the genus Lunaria; satin-flower; honesty.

MOON'Y, a.

Lunated; having a crescent for a standard; in resemblance of the moon; as, the moony troops or moony host of the sultans of Turkey. Philips. Fenton.

MOOR, n.¹ [Sax. mor, a mountain, a pool or lake, a plain; D. moer; G. mohr; Fr. mare; Dan. myre.]

1. A tract of land overrun with heath. Encyc.
2. A marsh; a fen;. a tract of wet low ground, or ground covered with stagnant water.

MOOR, n.² [D. moor; G. mohr; Fr. maure; Gr. αμαυρος, μαυρος, dark, obscure.]

A native of the northern coast of Africa, called by the Romans from the color of the people, Mauritania, the country of dark-complexioned people. The same country is now called Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, &c.

MOOR, v.i.

To be confined by cables or chains. On oozy ground his galleys moor. Dryden.

MOOR, v.t. [Sp. and Port. amarra, a cable, and a command to belay or fasten; amarrar, to moor, as a ship; Fr. amarrer; Arm. amarra; D. maaren; allied probably to L. moror; Fr. demeurer, to delay. It is composed of the same elements as the Saxon merran, amerran, amyrran, to hinder, to mar.]

To confine or secure a ship in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by chains. A ship is never said to be moored, when she rides by a single anchor. Mar. Dict.

MOOR-AGE, n.

A place for mooring.

MOOR'COCK, or MOOR'FOWL, n. [or MOOR'HEN.]

A fowl of the genus Tetrao, found in moors; red-game; gor-cock.

MOOR'ED, pp.

Made fast in a station by cables or chains.

MOOR'-GAME, n.

Grouse; red-game.

MOOR'ING, n.

In seamen's language, moorings are the anchors, chains and bridles laid athwart the bottom of a river or harbor to confine a ship.

MOOR'ING, ppr.

Confining to a station by cables or chains.

MOOR'ISH, a.

1. Marshy; fenny; watery. Along the moorish fens. Thomson.
2. Pertaining to the Moors in Africa.

MOOR'LAND, n.

1. A marsh or tract of low watery ground. Mortimer. Swift.
2. Land rising into moderate hills, foul, cold and full of bogs, as in Staffordshire, England.

MOOR'STONE, n.

A species of granite. Woodward.

MOOR'Y, a.

Marshy; fenny; boggy; watery. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.

MOOSE, n. [moos; a native Indian name; Knisteneaux, mouswah; Algonquin, monse. Mackenzie.]

An animal of the genus Cervus, and the largest of the deer kind, growing sometimes to the highth of 17 hands, and weighing 1200 pounds. This animal has palmated horns, with a short thick neck, and an upright mane of a light brown color. The eyes are small, the ears a foot long, very broad and slouching; the upper lip is square, hangs over the lower one, and has a deep sulcus in the middle so as to appear bifid. This annual inhabits cold northern climates, being found in the American forests of Canada and New England, and in the corresponding latitudes of Europe and Asia. It is the elk of Europe. Encyc.

MOOT, or MOOT'-CASE, n. [or MOOT'-POINT.]

A point, case or question, to be mooted or debated; a disputable case; an unsettled question. In this moot-case your judgment to refuse. Dryden.

MOOT, v.i.

To argue or plead on a supposed cause.

MOOT, v.t. [Sax. motian, to meet, to debate; Sw. möta, to meet, to fall, to come to or on; Goth. motyan. See Meet, of which this word is a different orthography. The sense of debate is from meeting, like encounter, from the French; for meeting gives rise to the sense of opposing, and the Dan. mod and Sw. emot, against, a preposition answering to L. contra, Fr. contre, is from this root.]

To debate; to discuses; to argue for and against. The word is applied chiefly to the disputes of students in law, who state a question and discuss it by way of exercise to qualify themselves for arguing causes in court.

MOOT'ED, pp.

Debated; disputed; controverted.

MOOT'ER, n.

A disputer of a mooted case.

MOOT'-HALL, or MOOT'-HOUSE, n.

A town hall; hall of judgment. [Obs.] Wicklife.

MOOT'ING, n.

The exercise of disputing.

MOOT'ING, ppr.

Disputing; debating for exercise.