Morris
['mɒrɪs] or ['mɔrɪs]
Definition
(noun.) United States statesman who led the committee that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816).
(noun.) leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806).
(noun.) English poet and craftsman (1834-1896).
(noun.) United States suffragist in Wyoming (1814-1902).
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Definition
(n.) A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
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Examples
- She calls me Noah, as a sort of fond way of talking,' said Mr. Morris Bolter, late Claypole, turning to Fagin. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mr. Morris Bolter. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mr. Morris asked me if I thought he must expect as uncomfortable an administration. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Morris and Sheridan had written songs about her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- During this vacation my father received a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The first United States patent for a drill jar is that to Morris, No. 2,243, September 4, 1841. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Sold for the benefit of the creditors and heirs of the estate of Jesse Blutchford, SAMUEL MORRIS, THOMAS FLINT, _Executors_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Bolter,' said Fagin, drawing up a chair and seating himself opposite Morris Bolter. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Except sometimes,' replied Morris Bolter, assuming the air of a man of the world. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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