4 entries under this word
n. [A-S. mōr, waste land on account of water, heath, or rocks, D. moer, O. H. Ger. muor, N. H. Ger. moor, allied to Goth. marei, O. H. Ger. mari. See MERE.] An extensive waste covered with heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath; a fen. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.
n. [D. moor, N. H. Ger. mohr, O. H. Ger. môr, Fr. maure, It. & Sp. moro, L. Lat. morus, from Lat. Maurus, a Moor, a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauritania, Gr. Μαῦρος, hence μαῦρος, black, dark.] 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; also, a native of the countries now called Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. MOORED; p. pr. & vb. n. MOORING.] [D. maren, marren, to tie, fasten, or moor a ship, A-S. merran, āmerran, to hinder, meoring, impediment, O. H. Ger. marrjan, marrēn, merrān, to hinder, whence Fr. amarrer, Sp. & Pg. amarrar, to make fast or moor a ship. See MAR.]
Sense 1. (Naut.) To confine or secure, as a ship, in a particular station, as by cables and anchors, or by chains, or weights beneath the water.
Sense 2. To secure, or fix firmly.
v. i. To be confined by cables or chains. On oozy ground his galleys moor. Dryden.