Dictionary entry

MORRICE

Webster's Dictionary 1828

MOR'RICE

MOR'RIS

MOR'RIS-DANCE, noun A moorish dance; a dance in imitation of the Moors, as sarabands, chacons, etc. usually performed with castanets, tambours, etc. by young men in their shirts, with bells at their feet and ribbons of various colors tied round their arms and flung across their shoulders.

Nine men's morrice a kind or play with nine holes in the ground.