Word Meanings - MOORPAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.

Related words: (words related to MOORPAN)

• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• UNDERLYING
  Lying under or beneath; hence, fundamental; as, the underlying strata of a locality; underlying principles.
• CLAYEY
  Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.
• LAYER
  That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• SLAYER
  One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.
• UNDERLAYER
  A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth. Weale. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• OVERLAYER
  One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.
• MISLAYER
  One who mislays.
• PIPELAYER; PIPE LAYER
  A politician who works in secret; -- in this sense, usually written as one word. (more info) 1. One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc.
• BRICKLAYER
  One whose pccupation is to build with bricks. Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch.
• ALLAYER
  One who, or that which, allays.
• MANSLAYER
  One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
• WOOD-LAYER
  A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.
• INLAYER
  One who inlays, or whose occupation it is to inlay.