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Missouri

noun

A midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union. Synonyms: MO, Show Me State.

The longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis. Synonym: Missouri River.

A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri.

A dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri.

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"Missouri" Quotes from Famous Books

... remarked Lil Artha, composedly, as though he really took a cruel satisfaction in seeing Landy shiver; "and, besides, I don't more'n half believe the fairy story. Toby's got to show me before I own up. I reckon some of my people must have come from Missouri." ...

— Afloat - or, Adventures on Watery Trails • Alan Douglas

... refuse it effect. The Tennessee court in Lynn v. Polk, 76 Tenn. St. 121, was asked to declare a statute ineffective because its enactment was procured by bribing members of the legislature. The court held it could not do so. The Missouri court in Slate v. Clarke, 54 Mo. 17, had before it a statute authorizing the licensing of bawdy houses and was urged to declare it unconstitutional because against public policy and destructive of good morals. The court held it had no such power. The Justices ...

— Concerning Justice • Lucilius A. Emery

... as when I had it, but land values are coming up by leaps and bounds. Young man, the ground valuation alone of the six square miles adjoining Central Park is more than the value of all real estate in the great commonwealth of Missouri. And it is ...

— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... Avenue, the top-sergeants calling roll calls— did their horses nicker a horse laugh? did the ghosts of the boney battalions move out and on, up the Potomac, over on the Ohio and out to the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Red River, and down to the Rio Grande, and on to the Yazoo, over to the Chattahoochee and up to the Rappahannock? did you see 'em, stars of the ...

— American Poetry, 1922 - A Miscellany • Edna St. Vincent Millay

... We reached the Missouri at dark. A heavy gale tossed the water and whirled the sand. Can any one hear across the water, or are we to spend the October night in the timber? The Lord had provided for His work. A dark figure appeared on the bluff against ...

— American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 3, March, 1896 • Various

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