MOON-SHEERED. A ship the upper works of which rise very high, fore and aft.
MOONSHINE. Illicit hollands, schiedam, and indeed smuggling in general; excused as a matter of moonshine. A mere nothing.
MOON-STRUCK. An influence imputed to the moon in the tropics, by which fish, particularly of the Scomber class, though recently taken, become intenerated, and even spoiled; while some attribute poisonous qualities to them in this state. Human beings are also said to be injured by sleeping in the moon's rays.
MOOR. An upland swamp, boggy, with fresh water. Also, an open common.
MOOR, To. To secure a ship with anchors, or to confine her in a particular station by two chains or cables, either fastened to the mooring chains or to the bottom; a ship is moored when she rides by two anchors.
MOOR A CABLE EACH WAY, To. Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the opposite bow; the first is then hove in to one cable, or less according to circumstances, while the latter is veered out as much, whereby the ship rides between the two anchors, equally distant from both. This is usually practised in a tide-way, in such manner that the ship rides by one during the flood, and by the other during the ebb.
MOOR ACROSS, To. To lay out one of the anchors across stream.
MOOR ALONG, To. To anchor in a river with a hawser on shore to steady her.
MOOR-GALLOP. A west-country term for a sudden squall coming across the moors.
MOORING-BRIDLE. The fasts attached to moorings, one taken into each hawse-hole, or bridle-port.