A tract of land overrun with heath.

A marsh; a fen; a tract of wet low ground, or ground covered with stagnant water.

A native of the northern coast of Africa, called by the Romans from the color of the people, Mauritania, the country of dark-complexioned people. The same country is now called Morocco, Tunis, Algiers

To confine or secure a ship in a particular station, as by cables and anchors or by chains. A ship is never said to be moored, when she rides by a single anchor.

To be confined by cables or chains. On oozy ground his galleys moor.