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mór

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
mór, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§335;
a moor, waste and damp land
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  • Moor

    uligo.

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 23.
  • Móres græs

    the grass of the field (which Nebuchadnezzar was to eat),

    • Cd. 203
    • ;
    • Th. 252, 8
    • ;
    • Dan. 575.
  • On ðone hreódihtan mór; of ðon móre.

    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 121, 21: Beo. Th. 1424
    • ;
    • B. 710.
  • Ofer myrcan mór,

    • 2814
    • ;
    • B. 1405
    • .
  • Ys on Breotoneland sum fenn un*-*mǽtre mycelnysse . . . Ðǽr synd unmǽte móras.

    • Guthl. 3
    • ;
    • Gdwin. 20, 1-4.
  • Fennas and móras

    paludes

    ,
    • Bt. 18, 1
    • ;
    • Fox 62, 14.
  • Sumra wyrta eard biþ on dúnum sumra on merscum sumra on mórum

    aliae herbae montibus oriuntur, alias ferunt paludes,

    • 34, 10
    • ;
    • Fox 148, 24.
  • Ofer burna and ofer móras

    super rivos et paludes,

    • Ex. 8, 5.
  • Mistige móras,

    • Beo. Th. 326
    • ;
    • B. 162: 207
    • ;
    • B. 103.
high waste ground, a mountain
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  • Licgaþ wilde móras wið eástan . . . on ðǽm mórum eardiaþ Finnas . . . Ðǽr hit (Norway) smalost wǽre, hit mihte beón þreora míla brád tó ðæm móre; and se mór syððan, on sumun stówum, swá brád swá man mæg on twám wucum oferféran . . . Ðonne is tóemnes ðæm lande súðeweardum, on óðre healfe ðæs móres, Sweóland

    (Ohthere's description of Norway),

    • Ors. 1, 1
    • ;
    • Swt. 18, 27-34, 19, 1-2.
  • Ne munt ne mór,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 845
    • ;
    • Sal. 422: 681
    • ;
    • Sal. 340.
  • In mór héh

    in montem excelsum,

    • Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 4, 8: 5, 1.
  • Swá unefne is eorþe þicce, syndon ðás móras myclum ásprotene,

    • Ps. Th. 140, 9.
  • Ungeféredra móra

    inaccessorum montium,

    • Bd. 4, 26
    • ;
    • S. 602, 20.
  • In heágum mórum and in hréðum

    in arduis asperisque montibus,

    • 4, 27
    • ;
    • S. 604, 27: 3, 23
    • ;
    • S. 554, 20.
  • Of ðissum wéstum wídum mórum

    a desertis montibus,

    • Ps. Th. 74, 6.
  • Waldend scóp wudige móras,

    • Exon. 54b
    • ;
    • Th. 193, 12
    • ;
    • Az. 120.
Etymology
[
O. H. Ger. M. H. Ger. muor; n. a marsh, bog.
]
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  • mór, n.