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muir
/mɪɚ/
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What does muir mean?
noun
- A moor.
proper noun
- A surname from Scots.
- A neighbourhood of Willits, Mendocino County, California, United States.
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proper noun
- A village in Ionia County, Michigan, United States.
- A census-designated place in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A community in Norwich township, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada.
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Muir, a great naturalist, had the power to convey his wise sympathies and brooded-over knowledge.
Hence we find so many of the best mechanics trained at Maudslay's and Clement's--Nasmyth, Lewis, Muir, Roberts, Whitworth, and others--shortly rising into distinction there as leading mechanicians and tool-makers.
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The judge who sat on Muir and Palmer, the famous Braxfield, let fall from the bench the obiter dictum—‘I never liked the French all my days, but now I hate them.’
Quite at the head of the same valley, at a place called Craighaugh, on Eskdale Muir, one Hislop, a young covenanter, was shot by Johnstone's men, and buried where he fell; a gray slabstone still marking the place of his rest.
The dead they buried on the Borough Muir; the living who had concealed the sickness were drowned, if they were women, in the Quarry Holes, and if they were men, were hanged and gibbeted at their own doors; and wherever the evil had passed, furniture was destroyed and houses closed.