Definition of "moory" []

• Resembling a moor; swampy; boggy. (adjective)
• A kind of blue cloth made in India. (noun)

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• "Leaving the bridge, I ascended a gentle acclivity, and presently reached what appeared to be a tract of moory undulating ground."
• "The land was moory and rocky, with nothing grand about it, and the miller described it well when he said it was tir gwael — mean land."
• "I passed by a moor on my left, then a moory hillock on my right; the way was broken and stony; all traces of the good roads of Wales had disappeared; the habitations which I saw by the way were miserable hovels into and out of which large sows were stalking, attended by their farrows."