noun

1. a tract of open, rolling wasteland, usually covered with heather and often marshy or peaty; heath
2. a tract of land with game preserves

Etymology: ME more < OE mor, wasteland, akin to LowG mor < IE base *mori-, sea > marsh, mere, L mare, sea: basic sense “swampy coastland”

transitive verb

1. to hold (a ship, etc.) in place by cables or chains attached as to a pier or special buoy (mooring buoy), or by two anchors
2. to cause to be held in place; secure

Etymology: Early ModE < or akin to MDu maren, LowG moren, to tie

intransitive verb

1. to moor a ship, etc.
2. to be secured as by cables

noun

1. a member of a Muslim people of mixed Arab and Berber descent living in NW Africa
2. a member of a group from this people that invaded and occupied Spain in the 8th cent.

Etymology: ME More < OFr More, Maure < L Maurus, a Moor, Mauritanian < Gr Mauros