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moorish, a.1|ˈmʊərɪʃ, ˈmɔərɪʃ|
Forms: 4 moorysshe, 4–5 moryssh(e, 5–6 moresch, -isch, 6 moarish(e, morishe, -ysh, 6–7 morish, 7 mooreash, 9 Sc. muirish, 6– moorish.
[f. moor n.1 + -ish.]
†1. Of soil: Boggy, swampy. Obs.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. xxxiii. 28 The grounde was soo softe and moryssh, that they entred up to the raynes. 1538Leland Itin. V. 81 It is to be supposid that thes Pooles for the most part in Morisch [v.r. Moresch] Groundes, and lying sumwhat in low Groundes dreane the moist Places about them. 1591Spenser Ruines of Time 140 There now no rivers course is to be seene, But moorish fennes, and marshes ever greene. 1634Milton Comus 432 By lake, or moorish fen. 1641Wither Hallelujah ii. xx. (1879) 292 Moorish Grounds are now so hard, That, on them we safe may ride. 1766Entick London IV. 199 A thousand loads..were..laid in a moorish place. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 120 This swamp had a moorish look, and consisted apparently of black alluvial soil.
fig.1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. i, They be path-lesse, moorish minds That..sinke Beneath the steps of any villanie.
†b. transf. ? Spongy, soft. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. XVIII. xci. (1495) 840 The frogge is watry and moorysshe. Ibid. xix. ix. 869 Moryssh thynges dooth growe in erthe. 1750E. Smith Compl. Housew. 8 If their noses are snotty, and their throats moorish and muddy, they are bad.
†c. Of water: Such as is found in bogs. Obs.
1496Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 11 Those waters that ben hethy or morysshe. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. xi. 29 The chaulky Kenet,..The morish Cole. a1640Day Parl. Bees xii. (1881) 75 The moorish pooles stand emptie, left By water.
d. moorish mallow = marsh mallow.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cccxxxviii. 789 In English marsh Mallow, Moorish Mallowe, and white Mallowe.
e. moorish brown, moorish fly, the names of an artificial fly for fishing.
1635Markham Pleas. Princes 26 The Moorish-fly is made of fine flocks, shorne from a freese-gray russet, and the wings of the blackest male of a Drake. 1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 309 March... Flies proper..3. Moorish-brown.
2. Of or pertaining to a moor; abounding in moors or moorland; having the characteristics of a moor; belonging to a moor.
1546Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees) II. 413 In a wyld and morishe contree. c1600Norden Spec. Brit., Cornw. (1728) 63 A church standinge amonge the moarishe hills. 1744Preston in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 61 The Land is mountainous and moorish, abounding with Moss and Heather. 1787Burns in Cunningham Life (1850) 55/1 A romantic, but rather moorish place, on the banks of the Poole. 1802Wordsw. Resol. & Independ. xi, Upon the margin of that moorish flood. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 104 Common in muirish pastures. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 177 Moorish Skiddaw and far-sweeping Saddleback.
3. Inhabiting a moor; growing on moors.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xii. 580 Or'e-gone with loue of Hanse, a dapper More-land Lad..the wanton hart of that delicious mayd..was turn'd so much from beeing coy That shee might seeme to doat vpon the Morish boy. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 474 The disease..is there called the muir-ill, as if it were the consequence of cows eating muirish plants. |