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m., gen. mós, dat. mó, pl. móar, [akin to Engl. moor; Norse Moe]:—a moor, heath, mostly used of a barren moorland, grown only with ling; en biskup dragnaði um grjót ok móa, Sturl. ii. 50; tekr Skeggi á rás upp eptir móunum ok grípr þar upp malinn, Grett. 93: freq. in local names, Mór, Móar (Moe in Norway), Landn.; Mó-berg: in pr. names, referring to the hue, Mó-gils, Mó-eiðr, id.
II. peat, for fuel; skera mó, brenna mó, freq. in mod. usage; mó-tak, n. a peat-field: mó-skurðr, m. cutting peat: mó-gröf, f. a peat-pit: mó-færsla, u, f. carrying peat, Vm. 136: in old writers torf, q. v.
III. in compds, as mó-hella, mó-berg (q. v.), tufa: and hence of colour, mó-kollr, mó-brúnn, mó-rauðr, q. v.