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and u i-i\il li-t IM-II.-IIHI in 1860. 

 II,- ,1,,-,| l-Vh. I!.'., IS.-.L'. Mi, 

 Mrim-irs edited l.\ I-:. u I Russell, 

 n|i|ir;m-il Is:.:! ;>(5. See Poetical 

 ID vol. . ISK) 41 ; Lives, 

 ,1. I'.mU. isT'.i; S. Cwynne. 1905. 



Moorficlds. London thorough- 

 t.u, I'M iwcon Finsbury Pavement 

 :iinl Moor Lane, E.G., and openin 

 N. ut of Fore Street, its name in 

 till that is left of an area once fen- 

 land, and more recently known aa 

 Finsl.nry Kit-Ids. First drained in 

 I.". 1 1 , laid out into walks 1600, it was 

 built over in the 18th and early 

 19lh centuries. Bethlem hospital, 

 lormerly a convent, stood here 

 I nun li'iTt'., until its removal in 1815 

 to Si. George's Fields, Lambeth. 

 The old fields are covered by 

 Finslniry Circus and Square. 



Moorgate Street. London 

 thoroughfare. Running N. from 

 Lothbury to London Wall and 

 Finslmry Pavement, it was named 

 from a postern gate in the old city 

 wall which opened into Moorfields. 

 The gate was set up in 1415, re- 

 Imilt 1472, and taken down in 1762. 

 This street with Finsbury Pave- 

 ment became Moorgate in 1922 

 See Architecture, illus. ; Finsbury. 



Moor Hen. Alternative name 

 for the water hen (q.v.), a common 

 British water fowl. 



Mooring Mast. Device for 

 anchoring an airship. It consists of 

 a tall steel mast, to which an airship 

 is fastened by the bow, enabling it 

 to swing in any direction with the 

 wind. Such masts are constructed 

 with lifts to serve as means to 

 load the airship. In the wooden 

 masts passengers and crew ascend 

 by steps. <S'ee Airship. 



Moorings. Arrangement of 

 chains, anchors, or heavy iron 

 blocks, and buoys, to which ships 

 can make fast. They are laid 

 permanently in a harbour. Vessels 

 lying alongside a jetty are said to 

 be moored there. 



Moorish Architecture. Term 

 commonly applied to the Hispano- 

 Moresque style developed by the 

 Moorish conquerors of Spain, and 

 illustrated in such buildings as the 

 mosque of Cordova and the Alham- 

 bra at Granada. It formed a dis- 

 tinctive phase of Mahomedan 

 architecture (q.v.). See Arch. 



Moorland. Extensive tract of 

 poor land covered largely with 

 heather, mosses, and peat bog. 

 Large areas of the Pennine chain 

 and the uplands of Scotland are 

 typical moorland. In S. England 

 examples are found in Dartmoor, 

 Exmoor, and Bodmin Moor. 



Moor Park. Name of two Eng- 

 lish parks. One is 1 m. from Bick- 

 mansworth, Hertfordshire ; the 

 other on the banks of the Wey, 2 

 m. from Farnham, Surrey. The 



first-named was originally enclosed 

 by George Neville, archbishop of 

 York, about 1460. The man in. 

 nf I'lii-tlanil >tmie, was Imilt in 1H7M, 

 and re.-,,n-imi-teil in 1720. It was 

 l>iivlit by Lord Leverhulme, 1919. 

 The house and land in Smn-y 

 was formerly known ax Compion 

 Hall, its name hi-ini' altcn-d to 

 Moor Park, after the place in Hert- 



Mooring Mast. Pictorial diagram showing details of con- 

 struction and method of mooring a commercial airship 



fordshire, when bought by Sir 

 William Temple about 1682. Here 

 Jonathan Swift, when Sir William's 

 secretary, wrote The Battle of the 

 Books and Tale of a Tub, and 

 first met Esther Johnson (Stella). 

 The place is also associated with 

 Dorothy Osborne. 



Moors. Name in popular usage 



for t hi- .Moslem population of mixed 

 Berber and Arab descent in N.W 

 Afn'-a. The Mauri of the Maure 

 t an inn kingdom of Roman writer- 

 wen- Berbers. The Arab irruption 

 of the 8th century which led to the 

 invasion of Spain resulted in some 

 racial blending, and the subsequent 

 return to Morocco of Hispanified 

 Saracens (Moris- 

 cos) brought in an 

 Andalusian ele- 

 ment. The Arabic- 

 speaking Moor is 

 thus the resultant 

 of many forces, so- 

 cial and ethnic. 

 The name was ex- 

 tended by early 

 Portuguese ad- 

 venturers to the 

 Arabian settlers 

 upon the coasts 

 of India and Cey- 

 lon. See Morocco; 

 Spain. 



Moose (A Ice a 

 mac/ilia). Largest 

 living member of 

 the deer family, 

 distinguished by 

 its size, long pen- 

 dant muzzle, and 

 broadly palmated 

 antlers. It occurs 

 under the name of 

 elk in Europe ; but 

 the name moose is 

 restricted to the 

 American variety, 

 which ranges N. 

 of the Ohio River 

 to the borders of 

 the Arctic regions. 

 Alaska is now its 

 chief home ; in- 

 cessant hunting 

 has made it rare 

 in the less remote 

 forests of North 

 America. A fine 

 male stands nearly 

 7 ft. high, and 

 weighs over 1,000 

 Ib. It keeps to 

 the more secluded 

 parts of the forest 

 regions. 



In the summer 

 it visits the 

 swampy ground 

 near lakes, but in 

 winter resorts to 

 the higher ground. 

 Here it is usually 

 families, consisting of 

 and female and the 



found in 

 the male 

 young of the past two seasons; and 

 a "yard" is formed by treading 

 down the deep snow. In the 

 mating season the males are 

 highly dangerous, fight furiously, 

 and are often lured to destruction 





