moory
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They also found ten miles within the snowy mountains a plain champion country, with earth and grass, such as our moory and waste grounds of England are.
From Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage by Morley, Henry
The spot, though itself bare and moory, was nearly surrounded by wood, and looked like a clearing in an American forest.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
After I had walked about half-a-mile the pass widened considerably, and a little way farther on debouched on some wild, moory ground.
From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry
Adj. marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy†, poachy†, quaggy†, soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal†; moorish, moory; fenny.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
And Zarathustra went thoughtfully on, further and lower down, through forests and past moory bottoms; as it happeneth, however, to every one who meditateth upon hard matters, he trod thereby unawares upon a man.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm