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Michigan   /mˈɪʃɪgən/   Listen
Michigan

noun
1.
A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.  Synonyms: Great Lakes State, MI, Wolverine State.
2.
The 3rd largest of the Great Lakes; the largest freshwater lake entirely within the United States borders.  Synonym: Lake Michigan.
3.
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.  Synonyms: boodle, Chicago, Newmarket, stops.



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"Michigan" Quotes from Famous Books



... go back to Edith," she went on, "after knowing Bob. I don't want to go out to Michigan with Tom and Elise. I hate Michigan. Dear me! I don't know what I shall do. I'm discouraged. Once I was eager and confident, filled with enthusiasm and self-pride. Like that old hymn, you know. How does it go? 'I loved to choose my path and see, ...
— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty

... not expected to believe this red tale; but if he will take the trouble to write the General Manager of the Pere Marquette Railroad, State of Michigan, U.S.A. enclosing stamped envelope for answer, I make no doubt that good man, having by this time recovered from the dreadful shock occasioned by the wreck, will cheerfully verify the story even to the ...
— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman

... am making a collection of stones, one from every State. I try to get them about the size of a hen's egg. If any other correspondent is making such a collection, I will be very glad to exchange a stone from Michigan for one from any ...
— Harper's Young People, September 7, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Delaware combined; this amount is equal to the entire production of the state of North Carolina and about 80 per cent. of the production of each of the states of Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin; the chemist has produced over 100 useful commercial products from corn, which, without him, would never have been produced. In the asphalt industry the chemist has taught how to lay a road surface that will always be ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... cavalcade, or ez the infamous Jacobin Radical party irrevelently term it, the menajery, proceeded to Chicago. The recepshuns his Imperial Highniss received through Michigan were flatterin in the extreme. I continue ...
— "Swingin Round the Cirkle." • Petroleum V. Nasby


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