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Definition: Moor hawk

Moor \Moor\, n. [OE. mor, AS. m[=o]r moor, morass; akin to D.
moer moor, G. moor, and prob. to Goth. marei sea, E. mere.
See Mere a lake.]
1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and
having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and
abounding in peat; a heath.
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In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
--Carew.
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2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
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Moor buzzard (Zo["o]l.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]

Moor coal (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite.

Moor cock (Zo["o]l.), the male of the moor fowl or red
grouse of Europe.

Moor coot. (Zo["o]l.) See Gallinule.

Moor game. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Moor fowl.

Moor grass (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass ({Sesleria
c[ae]rulea}), found in mountain pastures of Europe.

Moor hawk (Zo["o]l.), the marsh harrier.

Moor hen. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The female of the moor fowl.
(b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See
Gallinule.
(c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis).

Moor monkey (Zo["o]l.), the black macaque of Borneo
(Macacus maurus).

Moor titling (Zo["o]l.), the European stonechat
(Pratinocola rubicola).
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