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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.

 

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