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Mississippian   Listen
proper noun
Mississippian  n.  
1.
A geological period extending from from 310 million to 345 million years ago; it was associated with an increase of land areas, the presence of primitive ammonites, and emergence of winged insects; called also Missippian period and Lower Carboniferous period.
Synonyms: Missippian period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period.
2.
A resident of Mississippi.






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"Mississippian" Quotes from Famous Books



... lynching, properly so-called. One could not imagine an actual lynching at, say, Atlantic City, with ten or fifteen bands playing, blind pigs in operation up every alley, a theatre in every block or two, and the boardwalk swarming with ladies of joy. Even a Mississippian, transported to such scenes, succumbs to the atmosphere of pleasure, and so has no seizures of moral rage against the poor darkey. Lynching, in brief, is a phenomenon of isolated and stupid communities, ...
— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... how it is," said a Mississippian one day; "we expected to whip you without the slightest trouble. We threw the war into the Border States to keep it off our soil. Mississippi was very earnest for the Rebellion when Kentucky was the battle-ground. We no more expected you would come here, ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

... there was offered against purchasable objects the more rapid the increase became. Cloth which heretofore brought fifteen to eighteen francs a yard rose to one hundred twenty-five francs a yard. In a cook-shop a "Mississippian," bidding against a nobleman for a fowl, ran the price up ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various



Words linked to "Mississippian" :   Lower Carboniferous period, Carboniferous period, Missippian period, carboniferous



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