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Missouri

məˈzʊri
WordNet
On the sheet a letter written by the photographer and carriage owner, in Kennett, Missouri, on July 6, 1908.
On the sheet a letter written by the photographer and carriage owner, in Kennett, Missouri, on July 6, 1908.
  1. (n) Missouri
    a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri
  2. (n) Missouri
    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
  3. (n) Missouri
    the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis "The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world"
  4. (n) Missouri
    a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri
Idioms

From Missouri - (USA) If someone is from Missouri, then they require clear proof before they will believe something.

Usage in the news

Visitors to the Agriculture Building at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia should be impressed with the full-sized truck constructed of donated canned goods by the Missouri Farmers Care organization. newstribune.com

Missouri's Phil Pressey, shown defending Missouri Southern's R.J. Leverette during an exhibition game Sunday in Columbia, will have to cope with some lofty expectations being placed on him this season. newstribune.com

In answer to the increased demand, Esh Quality Structures Inc, is expanding into northwestern Missouri, with a new sales office in Cameron, Missouri opening July 13. hpj.com

Missouri Sen Ron Richard, R-Joplin, has been elected majority floor leader in the Missouri Senate. joplinglobe.com

The group of Kansas City business leaders who tried unsuccessfully to keep Missouri from leaving the Big 12 Conference for the SEC included former University of Missouri president Gary Forsee . ktrs.com

COLUMBIA — Missouri backup quarterback Ashton Glaser will transfer to Missouri State University. columbiamissourian.com

Backup quarterback Ashton Glaser is leaving the Missouri football team and will transfer to Missouri State, he told the Tribune this morning. columbiatribune.com

Missouri Flocks of prairie chickens, historic residents of grasslands , are being managed for expansion in north and southwest Missouri. hpj.com

George Veryl Gurney , age 76, of Cassville, Missouri, passed away Sunday, October 11, 2009, in Cox Medical Center South, Springfield, Missouri. cassville-democrat.com

Missouri guard Negus Webster-Chan signals for the ball during the second half of the basketball game against Northwest Missouri State on Monday at Mizzou Arena. columbiamissourian.com

The University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing honored members of the Nightingale Society with a reception March 3 at the University of Missouri Reynolds Alumni Center. columbiatribune.com

Missouri baseball player Rob Zastryzny warms up on the pitcher's mound during the fourth inning of the Missouri Baseball Fall World Series Game 4. columbiamissourian.com

I Say Missouri, You Say: Some candidates running for statewide offices in Missouri use two pronunciations of the state. nytimes.com

COLUMBIA — The Missouri Press Association will host a forum for Missouri gubernatorial and US Senate candidates Friday morning at the Holiday Inn Executive Center. columbiamissourian.com

Southeast Missouri residents will be among those who benefit from almost $25 million in assistance to Missouri food banks, food pantries, and programs that provide support to low-income children and seniors. standard-democrat.com

Usage in scientific papers

Acknowledgement. A part of this work was done when the first author was visiting University of Missouri (Columbia).
L_p moments of random vectors via majorizing measures

Bales A tree for computing the Cayley-Dickson twist Missouri J. of Math.
The Clifford Twist

NCRN) program and by a University of Missouri Research Board grant.
Asymptotic Theory of Cepstral Random Fields

This paper was completed by the support of NSF-FRG DMS: 0652571 and 0652684, during the author’s postdoctoral fellowship at University of Missouri, Columbia.
Inequalities for general mixed affine surface areas

Intersexes in mississippi river shovelnose sturgeon sampled below saint louis, missouri, usa.
A Developmental Network Theory of Gynandromorphs, Sexual Dimorphism and Species Formation

Usage in literature

The Missouri was an eighth of a mile across at its junction with the Musselshell, but its current was gentle. "Deerfoot in The Mountains" by Edward S. Ellis

These Missouri Indians frequently visited Minnesota. "The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier" by Charles E. Flandrau

We'll just be about as early as Lewis and Clark up the Missouri in the spring. "The Young Alaskans on the Missouri" by Emerson Hough

Short-leaf is the common lumber pine of Missouri and Arkansas. "Seasoning of Wood" by Joseph B. Wagner

The name of Lower Missouri attached to that part of the river between its mouth and the entrance of the Platte. "Lewis and Clark" by William R. Lighton

Gift of S. O. Strucksberg, St. Joseph, Missouri. "Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology" by John T. Schlebecker

Such is the character of the Mississippi below the mouth of the Missouri. "A New Guide for Emigrants to the West" by J. M. Peck

During the morning hour of February 21st, Senator Henderson, of Missouri, presented a petition from New York. "History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II"

In 1817, Missouri applied for admission to the Union. "The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery" by Joseph Ketchum Edgerton

Beyond the Osage river, the southern bank of the Missouri was low, and covered with rushes; and occasionally with oak, ash, and walnut-trees. "Travels in North America, From Modern Writers" by William Bingley

Usage in poetry
Then roam'd the forest's dusky son,
In nature's wildness, proudly free,
From where Missouri's waters run,
Far north, to Hudson's icy sea.
will say aboard the Missouri all these
proceedings are now closed, by nightfall
hours beyond zero no one remarks
it was grey, it had no beauty at all.
"Which my name is Bowers, and my crust was busted
Falling down a shaft in Calaveras County;
But I'd take it kindly if you'd send the pieces
Home to old Missouri!"
Till Mount Shasta's breezes fan
The snowy peaks of Ta Sieue-Shan,--
Till Erie blends its waters blue
With the waves of Tung-Ting-Hu,--
Till deep Missouri lends its flow
To swell the rushing Hoang-Ho!
Missouri an' St. Lawrence, Volga an' Thames an' Dee,
All on 'em are varra fine, but niver t' same to me
As rivers 'at are singin' wheer my faither speech prevails,
A-crinklin' an' a-crinklin' doon my forsaken Dales.
Mighty men of Missouri, come forth to the call,
When the rush of your rivers, when tempests appal,
And the torrents their sources unseal;
And this be the watchword of one and of all--
"Remember the butcher, McNeil!"