moor
noun
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
moory
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a word derived from
moor.
Example Sentences
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After I had walked about half-a-mile the pass widened considerably, and a little way farther on debouched on some wild, moory ground.
From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by George Henry Borrow
And Zarathustra went thoughtfully on, further and lower down, through forests and past moory bottoms; as it happeneth, however, to every one who meditateth upon hard matters, he trod thereby unawares upon a man.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Adj. marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy†, poachy†, quaggy†, soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal†; moorish, moory; fenny.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
They also found ten miles within the snowy mountains a plain champion country, with earth and grass, such as our moory and waste grounds of England are.
From Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage by Henry Morley
His uniform is of the Goltz Regiment, Infantry: Goltz Regiment, which lies at Ruppin,—at and about, in that moory Country to the Northeast, some thirty or forty miles from Berlin;—whither his destination now is.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Thomas Carlyle
