Word Meanings - MOORISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the characteristics of a moor or heath. "Moorish fens." Thomson.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HEATHER
  Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
• HEATHENISHNESS
  The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• HEATHENRY
  1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HEATHY
  Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• HEATHENISM
  1. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism. 2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• THOMSONIANISM
  An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• HEATHENISH
  1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton. 2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South. 3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
• HEATHENIZE
  To render heathen or heathenish. Firmin.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• HEATHENISHLY
  In a heathenish manner.
• MOORISH
  Having the characteristics of a moor or heath. "Moorish fens." Thomson.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• SHEATHLESS
  Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• SEA HEATH
  A low perennial plant resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.
• INSHEATHE
  To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• SHEATHED
  Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. (more info) 1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.