Michigan
['miʃigən]
Definition
(noun.) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card.
(noun.) a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
Edited by Daniel--From WordNet
Examples
- I thought he had a fine name and he came from Minnesota which made a lovely name: Ireland of Minnesota, Ireland of Wisconsin, Ireland of Michigan. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- From Canada, after the episodes noted in the last chapter, he went to Adrian, Michigan, and of what happened there Edison tells a story typical of his wanderings for several years to come. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After leaving my first job at Stratford Junction, I got a position as operator on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern at Adrian, Michigan, in the division superintendent's office. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- GROWN IN CARO, MICHIGAN] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Four old Michigan Central cars with rotten sills collapsed in the ditch and went all to pieces, distributing figs, raisins, dates, and candies all over the track and the vicinity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A number of observations were made, and Watson, of Michigan University, with two others, worked all night computing, until they agreed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The present constitution of the State of Michigan was ratified during this time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He has been showing it ever since the days when he was a newsboy on the trains of the Canadian Grand Trunk Railroad and the Michigan Central. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the United States the largest deposits of salt are found in the states of Michigan, New York, Ohio, Utah, Louisiana, Kansas, Texas and California. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- During the advance on Corinth a vacancy occurred in the colonelcy of the 2d Michigan cavalry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In later life he was manager of the local street railway lines at Port Huron, Michigan, in which he was heavily interested. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I did not offer mine, however, as I did not wish to consider myself a citizen of Michigan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This canal was designed to connect the Chicago River with the Mississippi River, so as to send the sewage of Chicago down the Mississippi instead of into Lake Michigan. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- At one time an ice-jam had broken the cable-line between Port Huron, in Michigan, and Sarnia, over the Canadian line. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Herring, built a multiple-wing machine and tried it successfully on the banks of Lake Michigan. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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