資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Moor \Moor\, n. [OE. mor, AS. m[=o]r moor, morass; akin to D.
moer moor, G. moor, and prob. to Goth. marei sea, E. mere.
See {Mere} a lake.]
1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and
having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and
abounding in peat; a heath.
In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
--Carew.
2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
{Moor buzzard} (Zo["o]l.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
{Moor coal} (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite.
{Moor cock} (Zo["o]l.), the male of the moor fowl or red
grouse of Europe.
{Moor coot}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Gallinule}.
{Moor fowl}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The European ptarmigan, or red grouse ({Lagopus
Scoticus}).
(b) The European heath grouse. See under {Heath}.
{Moor game}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Moor fowl} (above).
{Moor grass} (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass ({Sesleria
c[ae]rulea}), found in mountain pastures of Europe.
{Moor hawk} (Zo["o]l.), the marsh harrier.
{Moor hen}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The female of the moor fowl.
(b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See
{Gallinule}.
(c) An Australian rail ({Tribonyx ventralis}).
{Moor monkey} (Zo["o]l.), the black macaque of Borneo
({Macacus maurus}).
{Moor titling} (Zo["o]l.), the European stonechat
({Pratinocola rubicola}).