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▪ I. ‖ moory, n.|ˈmʊərɪ|
Also 7–9 moree, 8 moore, mouri.
[Possibly connected with Pg. morim, shirting.]
A kind of Indian cloth.
1696J. F. Merch. Wareho. laid open 29 Morees... This is a Callico extreamly in use..to Work for Petty-Coats and Waste Coats. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3933/4 The Cargo of the Star of the East, consisting of Long Cloth,..Betelles, Moores, Neckcloths [etc.]. 1704Ibid. No. 4054/6 Lots 414, 415, Cont. 200 Moores. 1754Sewel Eng.-Du. Dict., Morees, mouris, zekere Oostindische Katoenen. 1857Balfour Cycl. India, Moories, Blue. These cloths are principally manufactured [etc.]. The trade..at Pondicherry consists of long cloths..morees, dimities [etc.]. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Moory, a brown cloth made in India. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 350 Morees, Manchester-made Muslins, much employed for the African export trade.
▪ II. moory, a.1|ˈmʊərɪ, ˈmɔərɪ|
Forms: 4–5 mory, 6 morey, 6–7 moorie, 7 moarie, 8 moary, 9 Sc. muiry, 6– moory.
[f. moor n.1 + -y. Cf. MDu. môrich (mod.Du. moorig), G. moorig.]
1. Marshy, fenny; growing in a marsh or fen. moory land, moory-earth = moorland n. 2.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 157 Herdes fond hym among mory flagges and sprayes. c1400Lydg. æsop's Fab. v. 118 The frosshe delyteþ to abyde in mory lakys. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 31 b, It delighteth in a watrishe moorie grounde. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1191 Because neither the Palme tree is a moorie plant and loving the waters,..neither [etc.]. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. ix. 444 Guint, forth along with her Lewenny that doth draw; And next to them againe, the fat and moory Frawe. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 944 As when a Gryfon through the Wilderness With winged course ore Hill or moarie Dale, Pursues the Arimaspian [etc.]. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Lupulus, The Essex Planters account a moory Land the properest for Hops. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 853 On peaty or moory lands marl and other similar materials will be of advantage in rendering them more compact. 1877Skertchly Geol. Fenland 130 [In Lincolnshire] It is usual to speak of ‘moory land’, ‘black land’, or ‘fen’ where the soil is peaty.
2. Of or pertaining to a moor or heath; having the characteristics of a moor; abounding in heath.
1794W. Marshall Central Highl. Scot. 12 On the Yorkshire hills, the moory earth, generally of greater thickness, lies on a dead sand, or an infertile rubble; without any intervening soil. 1830Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 326 The moory and rocky parts in the West Riding. 1865Geikie Scen. & Geol. Scotl. x. 267 A tract of moory heights. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 360/2 On muiry soils this crop is also not unfrequently lost.
▪ III. moory, a.2|ˈmɔərɪ, ˈmʊərɪ|
[? f. Moor n.2 + -y1.]
? Dark coloured, black.
1581J. Studley Seneca's Hercules Œtæus ii. 196 b, Him that weildes the moary mace [L. furva sceptra] of blacke Auerne to smoake. Ibid. iv. 210, I see the dumpish moary denne of glowming lady night. 1600Tourneur Transf. Metam. vii, The skie..Is cloathed with moorie Vesperugoe's coate. |