MOO 
To MOOR, v. a. [more?-, Fr.] To fallen by anchors or 
©therwife : 
Three more fierce Earns in his angry mood 
Tafii’d on the lhallows of the moving land. 
And in mid-ocean left them moor'd at hand. Dryden. 
To MOOR, v.n. Tobe fixed by anchors ; to be Rationed. 
—Fie vifited the top of Taurus, and the famous Ararat, 
where Noah’s ark firff moored. Arbuthnot and Pope. 
At length on oozy ground his gallies moor, 
Their heads are turn’d to fea, their Herns to Ihore. Dryden. 
To blow a Moor, [at the fall of a deer; corrupted from 
k mart, Fr.] To lound the horn in triumph, and call in 
the whole company of hunters. Ainfworth. 
MOO'R-BERRY. See Vaccinium. 
MOO'R-BUZZARD. See Falco asruginofus. 
MOO R-COCK. See Tetrao Scoticus. 
Griev’d him to lurk the lakes befide, 
Where coots in rulhy dingles hide, 
And moor-cocks ffiun the day. Shenftone. 
MOOR’s CREE'K, a river of New Jerfey, which runs 
into the Delaware in lat. 39. 58. N. Ion. 75.4. W. 
MOO'R-GAME, /! Red game; groufe. See the article 
Tetrao. —A trail of land, lo thinly inhabited, mull have 
much wild fowl; and I fcarcely remember to have feen a 
dinner without them. The moor-game is every where to 
be had. Jovfon's Jour 11. Wtjlern IJlands. 
MOOR’s HEAD', f. in chemiltry, a copper cap made 
in form of a head, to be let over any vefiel, or over a re¬ 
verberating furnace. Allb the head of a copper or glafs 
ftill or alembic, which is luted on to the body or cucurbit, 
and hath a beak or pipe to let the fpirit run down into 
the receiver. 
MOO'R-HEN, f. A fowl that feeds in the fens, with¬ 
out web feet; the Fulica chloropus.—Water fowls, as 
fea-gulls and moor-hens, when they flock and fly together 
from the fea towards the fliores, forelhew rain and wind. 
Bacons Nat. Hijl. 
MOOR’s I'SLAND, one of the fmaller Bahamas. Lat. 
26.45.N. Ion. 77.40. W. 
MOOR KIR'K, a village in Yorklhire ; with a fair on 
the 24th of June. 
MOO'R-LAND, f. Marfti; fen ; watery ground. A 
black, light, and loft, earth, very loofe, and without any 
admixture of Hones ; and with very little clay or land.— 
In the fouth part of Staffordlhire they go to the north for 
feed-corn, and they of the north to the fouth, except in the 
moor-lands. Mortimer's Hujbandry. 
Or like a bridge that joins a marifn 
To moor-lands of a different parilh. Swift. 
MOO'R-LANDS, a trail particularly fo called, in the 
north part of Staffordlhire, where the land rifes gradually 
into fmall hills, which run through the midfc of England 
in one continued ridge,rifing higher and higher,toScotland, 
and fending forth many rivers. The foil here is fo foul 
and cold, that the fnow lies ahncfl all the year on the tops 
of the hills ; and it is withal very rugged and barren, yet 
yields plenty of coal, lead, copper, rance-marble, and 
mill-Hones ; and fome of the lime-Hone hills bear fuch a 
lweet though fliort grafs, as is very grateful to the oxen, 
of which here is a very good breed. It is obferved here, 
that the welt wind always brings rain, and the eaff and 
fouth fair weather; that, though this trafl is full of bogs, 
it is as healthy as any other part of the county; and that 
it produces the fame plants as the Peak of Derby. England's 
Gaz. 
MOOR-LYN'CH, a village in Somerfetfhire, with a fair 
on the 20th of Auguff. 
MOO'R-STONE, J'. The name of a very remarkable 
Hone found in Cornwall, and lbmc other parts of England, 
and uled in the coarfer works of the prefent builders. 
This is truly a white granite, and is a very valuable 
ffcne. It is very coarfe and rude, but has beautiful con- 
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geries of varioufly-conflrufledand differently-figured par¬ 
ticles, not diffufed among, or running into, one another, 
but each pure and diflinbl, though firmly cohering with 
W'hatever it comes in contaft with. Its colours are princi¬ 
pally black and white ; the white are of a foft marbly tex¬ 
ture, and opaque, formed into large congeries, and emu¬ 
lating a fort of tabulated flrublure ; among thefe are many 
of a pure cryHalline fplendour and tranfparence; and in 
fome are lodged in different directions many fmall flaky 
mafles of pure talcs of feveral colours ; fome are wholly 
pellucid, others of an opaque white, others of the colour 
of brown cryflal, and a vail number perfeflly black. It 
occurs in immenfe flrata in fome parts of Ireland, but is 
difregarded there. It is found with us in Dcvonfhire, 
Cornwall, and fome other counties ; and brought thence 
in vaff.quantities to London. It never forms any whole 
flrata there, but is found on the furface of the earth in im¬ 
menfe and unmanageable mafles; and to feparate thefe 
into portable ones, they dig a hole with a wedge in fome 
part of them, and furrounding it with a ridge of clay they 
fill it up with water; this by degrees foaks in, and, finding 
its way into the imperceptible cracks, fo far loofens the 
cohefions of the particles there, that the day after they 
drive a larger wedge into the hole, and the Hone breaks 
into two or more pieces. It is ufed in London for the 
Heps of public buildings; and on other occafions, where 
great flrength and hardnefs are required. The people of 
Cornwall, who have this Hone in great plenty, ufe it in 
their tin-works, and particularly in their tin-kilns. 
The miners in fome parts of Cornwall ufe the name 
moor Hone for a fort of coarfe free-flone, which lies very 
often over the tin-ore: this is of a greyilh colour, and is 
fomewhat fofter than that ulually employed in building. 
MOO'R’s TOWN, a town of the Hate of Jerfey, in 
North America: eight miles fouth of Burlington. 
MOO'RBACH, a river which rifes from the Steenhuder 
Meer, in the county of Hoya, and runs into the Wefer at 
Nienburg. 
MOORBAD', a town of Hindooflan, in Baglana: forty 
miles eafl of Bafieen. 
MOORDAMPOU'R, a town of Hindooflan, in the 
circar of Hindia : nine miles fouth-wefl of Hurdah. 
MOORE, a county of North Carolina, with 4767 in¬ 
habitants, including 6co flaves. 
MOORE (Sir Jonas), an eminent Englilh mathema¬ 
tician, was born at Whitlee, in Lancafltire, about the 
year 1615. He applied himfelf principally to the Hudy 
of the mathematics, for which, from his childhood, he 
had difcovered a flrong partiality. This favourite pur- 
fuit he cultivated with great diligence and fuccefs, and 
acquired fuch a reputation, that, during one of the ex¬ 
peditions of king Charles I. in the northern parts of 
England, he was introduced to his majefly as a perfon 
Hudious and learned in thole fciences. Upon converflng 
with him, the king expreffed much approbation of his 
acquirements, and gave him a promife of encouragement, 
which laid the foundation of his future fortune. He 
was afterwards appointed mathematical tutor to the 
king’s fecond fon James, to inilrudl him in arithmetic, 
geography, and the ufe of the globes. During Crom¬ 
well’s government, he appears to have followed the pro- 
fefiion of a public teacher of the mathematics; for he 
is ffyled in the title-pages of fome of his publications, 
“ Profeffor of the Mathematics.” Mr..Granger fays, in his 
Biographical Hiflory of England, that he was employed 
by the commiffioners for draining and dividing the fens ; 
and in his furvey, he obferved that the lea made a curve 
line on the beach, from which he took the hint to keep 
it effectually out of Norfolk. This added much to hi’s 
reputation ; but no mention is made of the period of his 
life when he was thus occupied. After the refforation' 
of Charles II. he was rioticed and employed by that 
prince, who beflowed on him the honour of knighthood, 
having firff promoted him to the important office of lur- 
veyor-general of the ordnance. He frequently availed 
himfelf 
