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Definition of Moory
1. a. Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish.
2. n. A kind of blue cloth made in India.
Definition of Moory
1. Adjective. resembling a moor; swampy; boggy. ¹
2. Noun. A kind of blue cloth made in India. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moory
1. marshy [adj MOORIER, MOORIEST] - See also: marshy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moory
Literary usage of Moory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"... North America, on turf-moss in moory heaths. A creeping evergreen shrub of
particular neatness. The berries give a most agreeable preserve and are of ..."
2. The Silurian Rocks of Britain by Benjamin Nieve Peach, John Horne, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1899)
"For a distance of eight miles this band is traceable between Pot Law and moory
Sike; but towards the south-west, after a gap of about a mile and a half, ..."
3. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookedited by Charles Morris edited by Charles Morris (1921)
"A large portion of Jutland consists of heathy or moory land, comparatively
unprofitable. Elsewhere it exhibits a fertile, undulating surface. ..."
4. British Farmer's Magazine (1853)
"Of peat soils there are two divisions, viz., moory soils and peaty soils.
moory soils are distinguished from the foregoing varieties by their containing ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1757)
"( 1 1 ) And run between i'/ and the moory foil above, ... fo that when the moory
foil is dug into, ..."
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