And the tossed bark in moorings swings.
Moore.
Mooring block (Naut.), a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an
anchor for mooring vessels.
Moor"ish, a. [From 2d Moor.] Having the characteristics of a moor or
heath. "Moorish fens." Thomson.
Moor"ish, a. [See 1st Moor, and cf. Morris, Moresque.] Of or pertaining
to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
Moorish architecture, the style developed by the Moors in the later
Middle Ages, esp. in Spain, in which the arch had the form of a
horseshoe, and the ornamentation admitted no representation of animal
life. It has many points of resemblance to the Arabian and Persian
styles, but should be distinguished from them. See Illust. under
Moresque.
Moor"land (?), n. [AS. mrland.] Land consisting of a moor or moors.
Moor"pan` (?), n. [Cf. Hard pan, under Hard.] A clayey layer or pan
underlying some moors, etc.
Moor"stone` (?), n. A species of English granite, used as a building
stone.
||Moo"ruk (?), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) A species of cassowary
||(Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility
||in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the
||common cassowary. Its crest is bilobed; the neck and breast are
||black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the
||neck, blue.
Moor"y (?), a. Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy;
moorish. Mortimer.
As when thick mists arise from moory vales.
Fairfax.
Moor"y, n. A kind of blue cloth made in India. Balfour (Cyc of India).
Moose (ms), n. [A native name; Knisteneaux mouswah; Algonquin monse.
Mackenzie.] (Zoöl.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A.
Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult
male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers.
It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoölogists is
considered the same species. See Elk.
Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See Whisky jack. --
Moose deer. Same as Moose. -- Moose yard (Zoöl.), a locality where
moose, in winter, herd together in a forest to feed and for mutual
protection.
Moose"wood` (?), n. (Bot.) (a) The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).
(b) Leatherwood.
Moot (mt), v. See 1st Mot. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Moot (mt), n. (Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
Moot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting.] [OE.
moten, motien, AS. mtan to meet or assemble for conversation, to
discuss, dispute, fr. mt, gemt, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel.
mt, MHG. muoz. Cf. Meet to come together.] 1. To argue for and against;
to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in
this country.
Sir W. Hamilton.
2. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice;
to propound and discuss in a mock court.
First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men,
containing some doubtful controversy.
Sir T. Elyot.
Moot (?), v. i. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing
and fighting.
B. Jonson.
Moot, n. [AS. mt, gemt, a meeting; -- usually in comp.] [Written also
mote.] 1. A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of
the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the
discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in
composition; as, folk- moot. J. R. Green.
2. [From Moot, v.] A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of
fictitious causes by way of practice.
The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
Sir T. Elyot.
Moot case, a case or question to be mooted; a disputable case; an
unsettled question. Dryden. -- Moot court, a mock court, such as is
held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases. --
Moot point, a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question.
Moot, a. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided;
debatable; mooted.
Moot"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being mooted.
Moot"er (?), n. A disputer of a mooted case.
{ Moot"-hall` (?), Moot"-house` (?), } n. [AS. mth&?;s.] A hall for
public meetings; a hall of judgment. [Obs.] "The moot- hall of Herod."
Wyclif.
Moot"-hill` (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) A hill of meeting or council; an
elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were
held by the Saxons; - - called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green.
Moot"man (?), n.; pl. Mootmen (&?;). (O. Eng. Law) One who argued moot
cases in the inns of court.
Mop (?), n. [See Mope.] A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes
it makes!" Beau. & Fl.
Mop, v. i. To make a wry mouth. [Obs.] Shak.
Mop, n. [CF. W. mop, mopa, Ir. moipal, Gael. moibeal, moibean; or OF.
mappe a napkin (see Map, Napkin).] 1. An implement for washing floors,
or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or
coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.