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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

... people. To him the other continents arrive as contributions: he gives them reception for their sake and his own sake. His spirit responds to his country's spirit: he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes. Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and Saint Lawrence with the Falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him. The blue breadth over the ...

— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman

... never interposed. But where the unscrupulousness of martial discipline is maintained, it is in vain to attempt softening its rigour by the ordaining of humanitarian laws. Sooner might you tame the grizzly bear of Missouri than humanise a thing ...

— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville

... majority of the silver delegates probably favored Hon. Richard P. Bland, of Missouri, father of the Bland Act, as the presidential candidate, but the first balloting showed a change. Upon the fifth ballot Bryan received 500 votes, a number which changes before the result was announced increased to the required two-thirds. ...

— History of the United States, Volume 5 • E. Benjamin Andrews

... prepare the way for the extinction of Slavery by the action of economical causes, and we should prefer that solution to one of fire and blood. Already the system has received a death-blow in Maryland and Missouri. In Western Virginia it is practically extinct. If the war is carried on with vigor, it may become so before long in East Tennessee. Texas should be taken possession of and held at any cost, and a territory capable of supplying the world with cotton to any ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 50, December, 1861 • Various

... by Jefferson, which was struck out of the Ordinance of 1784. Northern men gave the credit to Nathan Dane, a Massachusetts jurist, who was in Congress in 1787. During the sectional feeling aroused over the admission of Missouri in 1820, a dispute arose in Congress over the respective claims of Jefferson and of Dane. Of this, Dane himself said: "In April, 1820, search was made for the original manuscript of the Ordinance of 1787. Daniel Bent's answer was 'that no written ...

— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

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