Word Meanings - MOORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. Mortimer. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.

Related words: (words related to MOORY)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• MARSHY
  1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny. 2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden.
• THICK
  1. Frequently; fast; quick. 2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. 3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. L'Estrange.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• THICKSET
  1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden. 2. Having a short, thick body; stout.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• MOORY
  A kind of blue cloth made in India. Balfour .
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• THICKEN
  To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." Shak. The press of people thickens to the court. Dryden. The combat thickens, like the storm that flies. Dryden.
• BOGGY
  Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
• THICKSKIN
  A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
• MOORISH
  Having the characteristics of a moor or heath. "Moorish fens." Thomson.
• THICK-KNEE
  A stone curlew. See under Stone.
• THICK-HEADED
  Having a thick skull; stupid.
• THICKET
  A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.
• RIVALESS
  A female rival. Richardson.
• REVALESCENT
  Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be
• CONVALESCENTLY
  In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
• CONVALESCENT
  1. Recovering from siclness or debility; partially restored to health or strength. 2. Of or pertaining to convalescence.
• CONVALESCE
  To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.
• REVALESCENCE
  The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent. Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him Coleridge.
• PHARISEEISM
  See PHARISAISM