Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MOR'RICE, or MOR'RIS, n. [or MOR'RIS-DANCE; Fr. moresque; from Moor.]

A Moorish dance; a dance in imitation of the Moors, as, sarabands, chacons, &c., usually performed with castanets, tambors, &c., by young men in their shirts, with bells at their feet and ribins of various colors tied round their arms and flung across their shoulders. Encyc. Nine men's morrice, a kind of play with nine holes in the ground. Shak.