\Mor"ris\, n. [Sp. morisco Moorish, fr. Moro a Moor: cf.
F. moresque, It. moresca.]
1. A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who
   accompanies the dance with castanets.
2. A dance formerly common in England, often performed in
   pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers,
   grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of
   Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters.
3. An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed
   angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground;
   also, the board or ground on which the game is played.
         The nine-men's morris is filled up with mud. --Shak.
Note: The figure consists of three concentric squares, with
      lines from the angles of the outer one to those of the
      inner, and from the middle of each side of the outer
      square to that of the inner. The game is played by two
      persons with nine or twelve pieces each (hence called
      nine-men's morris or twelve-men's morris). The pieces
      are placed alternately, and each player endeavors to
      prevent his opponent from making a straight row of
      three. Should either succeed in making a row, he may
      take up one of his opponent's pieces, and he who takes
      off all of his opponent's pieces wins the game.

\Mor"ris\, n. [So called from its discoverer.] (Zo["o]l.)
A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body.
It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger
eel or some allied fish.